LONDON -- As Israel's military prepared last month to launch its ground offensive into Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces published a warning about al-Kawthar Tower, a residential high-rise in the city. Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arab-language spokesperson, shared on social media a satellite photo with the building highlighted in red. Leave now, he said at about 10 a.m. local time, adding, "The defense army will attack the building soon due to the presence of Hamas terrorist infrastructure inside it or adjacent to it." By the time the afternoon began, an Israeli airstrike had reduced that building and another one-time residential high-rise like it to piles of rebar and concrete. Those systematic warnings and strikes -- which came weeks ahead of the second anniversary of the brutal conflic
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