I think clearly that on the ground campaign, you limit to a certain degree the amount of civilian casualties we're inflicting on the other sides, even at the risk of incurring greater casualties on your side among your soldiers.
Michael Oren discusses the Israeli military strategy to minimize civilian casualties while addressing the risk to their own soldiers.
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Hamas knows once it released the last 10 hostages, then Israel can then go into those tunnels, flood them with water, flood them with whatever flammable substance that we can find, and that will be the end of Hamas.
Terrorist organizations do not negotiate in good faith. They move the football. They will play with the emotions of Israelis. They'll torture Israelis. It's part of their terror. It's actually part of their strategy.
We know that when we send our children out to battle, if they -- you know, God forbid -- fall prisoner, the state will do everything, everything to get it back.