Beardedbruce:
"Israel made PHONE CALLS to the buildings it was planning to attack- AND dropped leaflets. Show me one instance of Hezbollah complying with this requirement"

I think the idea that the IDF made phone calls to all the buildings it intended to attack (and help the baddies escape in time also, how nice) has been thoroughly discredited. Like the UN post they bombed, as mentioned earlier in this thread. A principal justification given by the IDF for this was that the buildings had been used to launch rocket attacks or store rockets. Has anyone ever tried actually firirng a large rocket or even a Katyusha from inside their house, or manouvering one up the stairs of an apartment block? Thought not.
The real reason the IDF targeted so much civilian stuff, especially hospitals and schools etc, is making itself clear as the smoke clears. Most of the infrastructure of this southern region of Lebanon was built with Hizbullah money (Hizbullah are promising the people of the area they'll pump money back into rebuiliding). The Israelis were trying to show, in a perverse manner, the people of the region that Hizbullah can't look after their social needs by flattening all the work of Hizbullah hands that might improve people's lives and make them sympathetic to Hizbullah. In the same way the US has spent years trying to prove that Fidel's Cuba is a disastrous experiment in socialism by maintaining a medieval style siege /blockade around it, coupled with embargoes and sanctions. If they can amange to wear it down by means fair or foul, they'll be able to 'prove'to the people that the best way forward lies with Uncle Sam's free-market economic model. They've been tutoring their Israeli allies well