Selective precision: If 'Israel' can strike a single room in Lebanon, why is all of Gaza in ruins?

By any measure of modern military capability, the Israeli Occupation is among the most advanced powers on Earth (considering it is being funded by all the global powers). Its precision-guided munitions can strike a single room in a high-rise building without disturbing the floors above or below. Its intelligence network reaches into the hearts of enemy strongholds and across international borders, enabling it to track, locate, and assassinate individuals like Saleh Al-Arouri, Hashem Safieddine, Hassan Nasrallah, Ismail Haniyeh, and many others with surgical precision. These are not speculative claims, they are documented facts.

So the question must be asked: why, after nearly two years of war, is Gaza in ruins? Why have entire neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, and refugee camps been leveled? Why is half the population of Gaza now displaced, living among the rubble, or buried beneath it?

'Israel’s' stated justification, rooting out Hamas, rings increasingly hollow. If 'Israel' can pinpoint an individual in a moving car in another country and eliminate him without harming bystanders, it certainly could dismantle Hamas leadership without turning Gaza into a graveyard. But instead of targeted operations, we have seen a brutal, indiscriminate campaign that has destroyed nearly every facet of life in Gaza.

This is not a failure of intelligence. This is not the cost of war. This is the deliberate choice to erase an entire people.

One image that remains seared into my memory is the aftermath of the assassination of Saeed Attallah Ali, a Hamas commander who was living in Tripoli, Lebanon. The photos that emerged showed his apartment obliterated, reduced to rubble, while the rest of the building stood intact. The Israeli Occupation knew the exact floor and room he was in and struck with surgical precision. And yet, when it comes to Gaza, we are told the entire Strip must be destroyed to eliminate Hamas?

Saeed Attallah Ali's apartment following 'Israel's' precision strike (Credit: Reuters)

For decades, 'Israel' has claimed it values life, that it seeks peace, it is "the most moral army in the world", and that its military actions are defensive. But the evidence on the ground in Gaza tells a different story. You cannot claim to be eliminating “terror” while bombing children in their sleep. You cannot say you are targeting resistance fighters while systematically destroying food supply lines, water infrastructure, and medical facilities.

The devastation of Gaza has gone far beyond military necessity, if it ever had any. What we are witnessing is not a counter-terror operation. It is ethnic cleansing. It is genocide. And the world’s silence is complicity.

If 'Israel' wanted Hamas gone, it could have done it long ago. They would have done it as soon as Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 operation happened. What it wants now is something far more chilling: the elimination of the Palestinian people’s claim to Gaza, to land, to history, to existence itself.

No amount of talking points can justify the mass graves, the starvation, the decimation of entire families. The world must stop pretending this is a war between equals. This is colonial violence in its most brutal form. And it is long past time to name it for what it is.