Pentagon adopts Israeli tactic in bombing ISIS

As they say when you continue one tactics to approach problem without any results then tou change your tactics.

The U.S. has adopted a unique
Israeli battlefield tactic in its fight against ISIS:
exploding a missile above a building to warn
civilians inside that it's about to be bombed.
Israeli forces have widely used the so-called knock-
on-the-roof operations in Gaza attacks in recent years
to try to get civilians out before they are hit.
The first public revelation of the U.S. using a "knock
operation" came Tuesday at a press briefing by Air
Force Maj. Gen. Peter E. Gersten, deputy commander
for operations and intelligence for the anti-ISIS
Operation Inherent Resolve.
Gersten described a strike against an ISIS financial
storage center on April 5 in southern Mosul, Iraq. The
U.S. had been closely watching the house of an ISIS
finance operative, or "finance emir" in the words of
Gersten.
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"He was the major distributor of funds to Daesh
fighters," Gersten said, using another name for ISIS.
"We watched him come and go from his house, we
watched his supplies, we watched the security that
was involved in it. And we also watched occasionally
a female and her children in and out of the quarters."
Using reconnaissance aircraft and other intelligence
assets to keep watch, the U.S. then began to
formulate a plan, Gersten said, to get women,
children and other civilians out of the building.
"We went as far as actually to put a Hellfire on top of
the building and air-burst it so it wouldn't destroy the
building, simply knock on the roof to ensure that she
and the children were out of the building," he
recounted. "And then we proceeded with our
operations."
Gersten acknowledged the Israeli influence, saying,
"That's exactly where we took the tactics and
technique and procedure from."
Gersten did not indicate that the Israeli military had
formally briefed U.S. commanders on how to do
knock operations.
But he noted, "We've certainly watched and observed
their procedure. As we formulated the way to get the
civilians out of the house, this was brought forward
from one of our experts."
Gersten said that leaflets were also dropped to warn
of a pending attack. In some Israeli operations,
phone calls have been made to houses about to be
hit as well.
Initially the U.S. believed that the knock operation
had worked to save the woman inside that the U.S.
had observed.
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Despite the fact that "the men that were in that
building -- multiple men -- literally trampled over her
to get out of that building," according to Gersten, she
was able to get out herself.
He continued, "We watched her and observed her
leaving the building. And she cleared the building,
and we began to process the strike."
But then, he said, she ran back in the building.
It was "very difficult for us to watch, and it was
within the final seconds of the actual impact,"
Gersten recalled.
There is video of the entire incident but it's unlikely
to be released by the Pentagon because it shows a
civilian being killed, according to a defense official.
The U.S. has seen no evidence the finance official
has re-emerged and believes he is likely dead.
Gersten did not further identify the man or the other
ISIS members or civilians killed in the incident.
In his press briefing, Gersten emphasized that ISIS is
suffering from morale problems among its fighters,
in part due to the shortage of cash after more than a
dozen airstrikes against money centers. He noted
that the number of foreign fighters coming into Syria
and Iraq has now dropped to about 200 a month
compared to more than 1,500 a month a year ago,
though that may be due to several reasons including
morale and stronger border controls.
The U.S. is also putting a long-range artillery system
in southern Turkey to conduct more strikes against
ISIS targets in Syria, Gersten said.