@middleeasteye: “Ground incursions come under the pretext of harming the enemy, but what actually concerns us is the destruction we leave behind.” In a 2010 address, Dan Schueftan, head of international studies in national security at the University of Haifa, asserted that the principal objective of ground incursions is maximal destruction. He contended that labelling military sites as targets is merely ‘an excuse’ constructed by legal experts for presentation to the international community.