See How Caring We Are?

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.

  CNN

You were warned.  It's your fault if you die.

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.

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"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."

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"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."

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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.

Children?

It was "very difficult for us to watch [...] " Gersten recalled.

You poor, innocent, suffering souls.

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.

It would be too difficult to watch.

And hey, didn't Obama end the war in Iraq?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.