{"id":173729,"date":"2021-05-21T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=202485"},"modified":"2021-05-21T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T08:57:00","slug":"roof-knocking-in-gaza-and-the-myth-of-the-benevolent-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/21\/roof-knocking-in-gaza-and-the-myth-of-the-benevolent-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRoof Knocking\u201d in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its deadly attacks in densely populated Gaza, the Israeli Defense Force is employing a technique they call \u201croof knocking.\u201d First drones fire small missiles without warheads on a residential building, intended only to shake the building before armed missiles destroy it minutes later. The IDF calls these \u201cwarning shots\u201d and they are often preceded  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/roof-knocking-in-gaza-and-the-myth-of-the-benevolent-drone\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/roof-knocking-in-gaza-and-the-myth-of-the-benevolent-drone\/\">\u201cRoof Knocking\u201d in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/05\/21\/roof-knocking-in-gaza-and-the-myth-of-the-benevolent-drone\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its deadly attacks in densely populated Gaza, the Israeli Defense Force is employing a technique they call \u201croof knocking.\u201d First drones fire small missiles without warheads on a residential building, intended only to shake the building before armed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173831,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173729\/revisions\/173831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}