Unfortunately due to the anti-Torah "Zahal Code of Ethics", the IDF is never allowed to take its gloves off, leading to hundreds, even thousands of unnecessary Israeli deaths, whether in Jerusalem in 1967, Beirut in 1982, Jenin in 2002, Wadi Saluki in 2006 etc.
Peres and Ashkenazi boast that the IDF is "the most moral army on earth". Rivers of Jewish blood have paid for that boast! The original novel concept of the ruthless genocide of an enemy as a mitzva of Hashem and in order to save Jewish lives comes from.....the Torah!