That’s not true — Israel engages in needed urban renewal all the time.
The only reason they don’t do it here is that most of the insurgents and missiles are underground.
But when my soldiers are dying in door to door fighting, then prudence says LEVEL IT and bury the rats.
There’s a difference between leveling Gaza (as you said) versus, going into a neighborhood, where the IDF has identified to the Palestinian civilians and told them to move out of that neighborhood for their safety.
The goal here, for the IDF, as said by Prime Minister Benjamin over the last few days is for the IDF to find the tunnels and then to thoroughly destroy them. That’s what they are doing right now in their operation.