Targeting civilians: The truth about Hezbollah
From Human Rights Watch:
This is not to suggest that Israel has acted blamelessly during this conflict -- consider the Qana bombing, for example -- but does Israel intentionally target civilians? Does it recklessly -- and ruthlessly -- lob missiles into civilian areas?
This is the nature of the enemy Israel confronts.
Hezbollah must immediately stop firing rockets into civilian areas in Israel, Human Rights Watch said today. Entering the fourth week of attacks, such rockets have claimed 30 civilian lives, including six children, and wounded hundreds more...
Hezbollah claims that some of its attacks are aimed at military bases inside Israel, which are legitimate targets. But most of the attacks appear to have been directed at civilian areas and have hit pedestrians, hospitals, schools, homes and businesses...
As of August 4, Hezbollah had launched a reported 2,500 rockets into predominantly civilian areas in northern Israel...
This is not to suggest that Israel has acted blamelessly during this conflict -- consider the Qana bombing, for example -- but does Israel intentionally target civilians? Does it recklessly -- and ruthlessly -- lob missiles into civilian areas?
This is the nature of the enemy Israel confronts.
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
4:33 PM
3 Comments:
Lebanon is not Hezbollah, Michael. You cannot use Hezbollah's sins to justify Israeli attacks on the rest of Lebanon.
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Anonymous, at 4:47 AM
Wow, Hezbolla fights back? What assholes not to immediately install a group of store-bought stooges for the Israelis to manipulate. When I read a post like this, I'm amazed. the only difference between bin Laden and Israeli nation-state terrorists is that when Osama reduces a city to buildings to rubble and kills innocent civilians, he admits it was intention.
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Anonymous, at 5:02 AM
What a load of crap from the previous three commentators. Big bad Israel, waahhhhh.
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