reply to bobad,

You must be one of only a very small number across the world who still believes that Israel is not targetting civilians deliberately.

From the very beginning Israel has set out to inflict collective punishment on the Lebanese people.

Early on it attacked the suburbs of south Beirut, car convoys full of refugees, roads and bridges, power stations and petrol stations , schools and so much more.

Hundreds of innocent people have been killed and hundreds more have been maimed.Tens of thousands have been terrorised by the Israeli military.

700000 have become refugees in their own land.

The Israeli military lied about Qana ..where it committed mass murder slaughtering women and children while they slept.

They claimed that it was a place where Hizbollah fired rockets from but all the eye witnesses including western film crews said there was absolutely no sign of any military equipment there apart from the shards of the American made bomb that the Israelis used to destroy the building.

The Israelis delivered the "Shock And Awe" tactics that the US used in Iraq and showed the same lack of concern about the lives of the civilians in the freefire zone.

It is far more likely that the Israelis want to clear the south of Lebanon up to the Litani river which has always been one of the Israeli strategic goals for its northern border.

The actions of the Israeli military and its political leadership have been widely condemned across the world.It has attacked civilians with the most powerful of weapons in a totally indiscriminate way. At least half of its victims have been children.

Of course the Israeli should face an international war tribunal to answer for their crimes....but I am not holding my breath.Two decades ago the USA was found guilty in an International Court of mining a port in Nicaragua...but totally ignored the findings of the Court.
Ifor