That is propaganda for the west. If it where the case they would not be dropping 2000 pound bombs on civilians [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fP-J8m-BF0 [NY Times: Visual Evidence Shows Israel Dropped Bombs Where It Ordered Gaza Civilians to Go ]

I don't think GBU-39 suggested by journalist to be used instead can target deep underground facilities.

Israel deliberately cut off power, water, and all crossings into Gaza for delivering food and aid. Even worse than what Russia did to the power plants. Literal collective punishment, another war crime to add to their list.

Israel cut power and water they provided before to the territory which attacked them. Sounds like many countries did such thing in the past.

Israel are occupiers, yet they have the gall to do what they do

> Sounds like many countries did such thing in the past.

Can you give a good, relevant example?

I have supported Ukraine in the war for a long time but this claim I do not understand.

Surely a power plant has military value right? If you destroy the power plant, you impact the country's economic and manufacturing ability which would definitely impact the country's ability to wage war.

Obviously it also severely impacts civilians but many other "acceptable" actions in war do the same.

In my head I imagine a war between a military run off of portable gas generators and a military run off of power plants. The difference in capability between the two would be huge!

Is there something I'm missing here?

I’m guessing you haven’t served. The front line military brings its own power, exactly portable gas/diesel generators, to run everything. If there is a usable power line with a transformer to a usable voltage and it hasn’t been yet damaged in the fighting, it’s amazing, but also fragile.

A non trivial chunk of signal corps training is learning the ins and outs of standard generators, conventions and apparatus for distributing power, equipment for converting between various voltages used by equipment 1 to 80 years old, etc.