As a reminder, the IDF has Main Battle Tanks, Fighter Jets and plenty of Artillery.

One has to ask what they fear and who they are fighting that they would NEED to turn an M113 into a massive bomb in order to bring down a civilian high rise building entirely because all that firepower wasn’t enough? The idea that Hamas could represent that scale of threat without there being internationally recognized/validated evidence of it everywhere is laughable at best.

If you are curious what actual armies do with M113s in actual wars rather than what thugs committing genocide do with APCs handed to them like candy to ethnically cleanse a landscape, check out this Weapons Of Victory video about M113s in Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KySzPADd_Xg

Turns out they are extremely useful in modern warfare even when your enemy can actually fight back. Only being able to see a vehicle like this as useful or valuable if it is packed with an unbelievable amount of explosives and sent on a kamikaze mission to kill civilians indiscriminately is the most basic milquetoast fascist shit ever. It is shockingly dumb and shockingly cruel.

M113 track can be seen amid the rubble of this man’s destroyed home.

Danny Orbach, an Israeli military historian, told Reuters demolitions were normal in war, made necessary in Gaza due to tunnels and booby traps. He said Israel’s military was underprepared for the complex fighting, leading to the conclusion there was “no other way to fight such a war except destroying all buildings above ground.”

Translation -> The objective to ethnically cleanse a landscape is something no armed militia is ever “ready” for and is incredibly taxing and dangerous to do as a process of clearing buildings one by one and murdering people, it is far easier to just physically demolish everything and kill everybody without having to look them in the eyes while doing so. This is something we all knew before October 7th, genocide always begins the process of rationalizing itself by setting an impossible goal to move or control a mass populace in ways that simply cannot happen in short spans of time.