Fast Draw – Mortar Shells from Gaza

Fast Draw – Mortar Shells from Gaza

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Mortar shell have become a nightmare for Israeli communities along the border with Gaza. Israel neither prepared for this eventuality nor took it into account. Nevertheless, this problem can be resolved within a matter of a few days. All it takes is a courageous decision by the government.

Without such a decision, Israeli communities will remain abandoned for quite some time.

Given that a country cannot allow its citizens to become refugees in their own land, the following solution must be adopted until some technological solution can be applied.

The mortar shells fired at Israel from Gaza have a range of approximately 7 kilometers.

iHLS Israel Homeland Security

So what do you do? Talk to any medium-level artillery officer, any they will tell you: you level the entire sector where the mortar shell are fired from. What do you mean level? You instruct the local population to vacate their premises and you level the ground where elevation allows firing from.

It will take a few days but it will enable Israel to avoid the national humiliation of whole communities abandoned in 2014.

Have you ever heard about carpet bombing?

Well, this is hardly new, it was widely practiced during the Vietnam War.

Originally, carpet bombing was done by a large number of jets which returned to bomb the same targets repeatedly. Nowadays, dense artillery fire like the one the IDF’s MLRS artillery can produce should suffice.

As I’ve said, all it takes is the decision to do so. Israelis are being evacuated from their own homes, so let’s have a little out of the box thinking and let us not heed all sorts of international organizations like the UN, that ridiculous body.