Haven't been seen since WW2 or the 1970s? Are you just ignoring Sudan right now, or a million other armed conflicts?

I’m aware there’s a genocide in sudan but i’m not aware of entire cities being leveled in this fashion. there have been other conflicts where more people have died, but rarely is there a conflict where the entire world government apparatus appears to stand against 2 million people mostly women and children in contradiction to the democratic will of almost the entire world

it takes a lot of money and firepower to do what they’ve done to gaza. it is an affectation of enormous wealth and callousness against a nearly defenseless population

i will say though that sri lankans said that some of these tactics were pioneered against the tamil tigers in more recent history