Right, so Israel said full operational control of Bint Jbeil district in southern Lebanon was only days away.

Days.

That was back in April.

Well now we’re in July aren’t we and an Israeli reservist has just been seriously wounded inside the town, nothing unusual perhaps there, but it came in the wake of some stellar level of incompetence. You see the building he was shot from had been already been hit with tank fire, it’s a wonder the building was frankly still standing therefore. The man inside? Well, the army thought the man inside was dead, must be dead surely? Except he wasn’t. Instead they then had to send troops back because apparently “we think we got him” isn’t quite the same thing as actually having done so.

He was still alive.

And while Israel was busy revisiting buildings it thought it had dealt with and c ...