No, I'm saying that in a pre-10/7 world the IDF would have done a limited incursion like they've done countless times before when they have good intel. When they lack that intel because the Palestinians condone the tunnel construction rather than report it, then the IDF can't do precise raids that kill the builders with gunfire and they end up destroying the tunnels the hard way after an attack like 10/7. If the ant's nest of tunnels hadn't been condoned by the Palestinians, there would be far less need for using air-dropped munitions as opposed to ground incursions. The easier it is for Hamas to hide underground, the harder it is for the IDF to find them precisely. If Palestinians had ratted out the builders years ago, they wouldn't be dealing with the aftermath of what Hamas uses those tunnels for. Sorry, but once you pick a side and help them dig, you're not exactly innocent anymore, and if that fallout affects your children later on then that's of your own making as much as it is the IDF's. Palestinians have a choice, and they chose to materially-support Hamas and condemned their children to the down-stream fallout as a consequence of their material support to Hamas. Palestinians are the terrorism version of mafia wives.
"tell the IDF about the construction so that they can kill the Hamas builders."
Except that what the IDF actually did was destroy buildings. You are saying residents of the buildings should have invited the IDF to bomb them.
No, I'm saying that in a pre-10/7 world the IDF would have done a limited incursion like they've done countless times before when they have good intel. When they lack that intel because the Palestinians condone the tunnel construction rather than report it, then the IDF can't do precise raids that kill the builders with gunfire and they end up destroying the tunnels the hard way after an attack like 10/7. If the ant's nest of tunnels hadn't been condoned by the Palestinians, there would be far less need for using air-dropped munitions as opposed to ground incursions. The easier it is for Hamas to hide underground, the harder it is for the IDF to find them precisely. If Palestinians had ratted out the builders years ago, they wouldn't be dealing with the aftermath of what Hamas uses those tunnels for. Sorry, but once you pick a side and help them dig, you're not exactly innocent anymore, and if that fallout affects your children later on then that's of your own making as much as it is the IDF's. Palestinians have a choice, and they chose to materially-support Hamas and condemned their children to the down-stream fallout as a consequence of their material support to Hamas. Palestinians are the terrorism version of mafia wives.