Kirschenbaum wrote (on Srugim, 16 August 2024, translated in full):
“The IDF bombarded, for a certain period in Gaza, multi-storey buildings in an almost indiscriminate manner, with full knowledge that masses of children and mothers would be killed. There is a simple understanding that the Palestinian population in Gaza that was happy to watch the massacre in the Envelope on television needs to take a blow it will not forget. A straightforward security strategy led Israel to mow down ‘the innocent’ in Gaza in a very sharp manner, because there is no other way to defeat and eradicate Hamas. This is deliberate, this is strategic, this is correct. Let no one pretend otherwise. Now let someone explain to me why what is right in Gaza is not right in Jenin and Tulkarm, in Hebron and Nablus. The only effective solution against murderous Palestinian terror is painful and extreme deterrence of its supporting population. Eliminating terrorists on its own is almost meaningless. If those who raise the terrorists and name town squares after them do not feel the might of the Jews’ arm, they will quickly raise the replacements of the terrorists we eliminated yesterday in some brilliant intelligence operation.”