The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)—typically utilizing a Mark 84 warhead—is a 907 kg aircraft bomb in regular widespread use. It has a substantial blast radius of 35 metres and is capable of flattening city blocks and causing serious damage to housing up to 800 metres away It can also destroy hardened infrastructure; at a distance of 30 meters, the bomb produces a blast pressure of around 11.5 pounds per square inch (psi), which is sufficient to destroy reinforced concrete.
Military dominance of airspace makes its use irresistible to those state forces which have it, secure in the thought that their pilots and crews dropping these bombs will suffer neither casualties now any censor that has any real consequences.
If The Right One Don’t Get You, The Left One Will ( Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, “Ain’t Gonna Move”)
The people of Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs have endured the bombs of Al-Qaeda -affiliated groups, suicide or otherwise, on the grounds that the military arm of its political representatives, Hezbollah must be punished for sending fighters to assist the government in Syria A street in Haret Hreik was the site of two suicide car bombs in January alone. Now the Israeli state has ordered the 700,000 people to evacuate the area, that is, to leave their homes, lives and livelihoods ” for their own good”. “ It follows Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warning that “very soon, Dahiyeh will resemble Khan Younis”. It was there, during the 2006 War, that the Israeli military first developed its “Dahiyeh doctrine,” a practice of large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure aiming to turn the population against its own governments. With its complete control of Lebanese airspace it has impunity to bomb the area at will but its residents who did not leave in 2006, having seen not just Khan Younis but evacuations into fresh killing zones in Gaza are faced with daily impossible choices.