Israel Air Force (IAF) Commander of Hatzerim Airbase, Brig. Gen. Aviad Dagan, talked to outlet Walla! News about Operation Guardian of the Walls as the ceasefire in Israel’s south was held more than a week after Jerusalem and Hamas agreed to it.

“It happened very fast,” Dagan said.

“[Boming of] the towers, the subterranean [infrastructure], also the killing of terrorists,” he commented on the achievement of the IAF during the latest round of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

On the role of the pilot, the commander sounds somewhat philosophical. “When a pilot arrives to strike in the Gaza Strip, he is not eager for battle, with a knife between his teeth,” Dagan stipulated. ”We strike in the heart of a civilian population. We all understand the magnitude of the hour and the magnitude of our responsibility; that if we make a bad hit against those uninvolved [in the fighting], the State of Israel will face escalation.”

“Our actions in Gaza are surgical,” Dagan adds. “No military in the world knows how to do this thing [take down high-rise buildings] -- not the precise damage, nor refraining from inflicting harm to innocents.”