Israeli military officials have said there are no restrictions on bombing homes in Gaza, days after a prominent right-wing TV channel claimed that the country's military advocate general prevented an air strike on a building - where four soldiers later died - due to the risk of killing Palestinian civilians.
On 6 June, four Israeli soldiers died after the building they entered in Khan Younis collapsed due to an explosive device.
The Israeli army is still probing the cause of the blast and has yet to determine whether the device was a booby-trap set up by Hamas or if it was unexploded Israeli ordinance.
But within hours of the deaths, Israel's Channel 14, a right-wing network favoured by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Israel's military advocate general bore responsibility for the deaths.
The channel, which has repeatedly portrayed Palestinians in Gaza as "animals" who must be "exterminated", reported that the army had sent the soldiers into the building rather than target it with an air strike because Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi had changed army protocol to prohibit striking the structure.
