Hezbullah fires rockets into Israeli cities. The rockets hit apartment buildings, hospitals, a train station, fields...almost everything. But why don't the rockets hit Israeli military targets?
Of course, the reason is because Hezbullah doesn't care about civilians. They kill their own to make political points. Why would they care about the life of an Israeli, especially a Jew? And they don't.
How does Israel respond? With carpet bombings or massed attacks against Beirut and other civilian centers? No. Rather, Israel takes great pains to avoid killing civilians, while still achieving the military objective of disarming and destroying Hezbullah. In doing so, of course civilians die. It's the result of war. Civilians will die. But the difference is where one party targets civilians, or launches attacks with complete negligence, not caring who is hit, as opposed to an attack targeting a military objective for the purpose of hurting the enemy's ability to make war.
This is clear from the logs of an Israeli air force pilot, who notes in his journal in the early hours of the war:
>Major E, my formation leader walks into the briefing room, still in his jeans. He's been called to come ASAP. What's happening? He asks me. I update him, and we brief for our mission quickly. He is concerned about making mistakes, and bombing the wrong targets. He is experienced, and has been around long enough to see mistakes happen and innocent civilians killed. A friend of his, a helicopter pilot once mistook a letter in a target's name, and ended up shooting at the wrong target, killing a whole family. Major E does not want the same thing to happen to us. He emphasizes that there is no rush, that we must check and recheck every coordinate we receive, make sure we understand EXACTLY what we are supposed to target.
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