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I am glad you are diverging from the disgusting argument that random Palestinian children are valid military targets.
But the US is literally one of the countries least critical of Israel. It’s like saying “Well the fact that Fox News hasn’t condemned Trump is pretty telling.” No it’s not. That attack has drawn international condemnation. Even the US agrees that the way that the war is being waged leads to a needlessly dire humanitarian crisis. People are drinking salt water and subsisting on a starvation diet.
I am not one of those people who thinks this is some easy choice for Israel. But I read comments like yours and wonder if there is literally anything the IDF and Likud can do, no matter how extreme, that you won’t defend?
Any civilian is not a valid military target, whether they are men, women, children, or the elderly. But if they pick up arms, they become a valid military target, even if they're 13 years old. It's tragic, but it's also the reality - a 16 year old was killed yesterday because he stabbed two police officers with a knife before he was shot.
Turning off the water at the start was horrible - it was purely motivated by vengeance and spite rather than any legitimate military or political objective. The Likud are a party that have been subverted by a huckster who converted it into a cult of personality - but Israel is not a two-party system, there are legislators who were elected from a wide range of political parties. But my personal thoughts on the flaws of internal Israeli politics are not relevant at the moment. The IDF for sure is releasing propaganda, and you'd be stupid to take their statements on face. But when it's been corroborated or is extremely clear - like the drone footage of armed men climbing out of a tunnel under the Indonesian Hospital then I'm inclined to believe exactly the parts that have been confirmed.
On the whole, the war is being conducted in a manner to maximize the chances of mission success - the complete destruction of Hamas and rescuing the hostages - while minimizing Israeli casualties. Minimizing civilian casualties is a distant third and only prioritized over the other two if it were to jeopardize the mission. Most militaries will follow the same decision calculus.
So you have an underground weapons cache that has just been collapsed by a bomb. You know roughly where to dig and how far down to dig to recover the weapons from your cache. However you have a problem. Even if you could use traditional heavy machinery (excavators, skid steer etc) without getting detected or could gather enough men with shovels to get there quick, you can't risk using metal implements to dig down there once you get close. One "ting" and you could trigger a chain of explosions that kills your men and collapses the still functional parts of the tunnel near it. Heck depending on the size of the cache and the design of the tunnel networks in that section, it might even set the next cache of weapons off (an actual problem. Hamas has been having).
So how do you dig? With pressurized water!. Add a common sump pump a hose and an outlet once you've got close and use the power if water to blast the dirt and rock away. Recover your ammunition safely to be used against the infidels!
Common access to water in sufficient pressure is a key building tool for tunnelling.
That's a good point, but from what I understood it was primarily used as a source of potable water to supplement locally treated water.
As for using it to tunnel, I would imagine it's easier and simpler to just use a compressor powered by the tunnel power grid rather than deal with piping and water distribution down to the deep tunnel depths (>50m).
But this wasn't the justification provided - none was. Which is part of the problem - it leads to people speculating the reasons. It also makes it possible for someone to automatically assume the worst reason possible.
A compressor can be ran off a garden hose.
Good point