Word: fighters
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...country ways and their rage. "These children, they won't just grow up to fight Israel, they'll fight America too," said a young mother just arrived by taxi from Bint Jbeil district, scene of some of the war's heaviest ground fighting. One of her cousins, a Hizballah fighter, had been killed by the Israelis in nearby Maroun...
...make a moral, life-or-death decision while streaking across the Lebanese sky at twice the speed of sound? That is the excruciating dilemma that Israeli pilots say they face dozens of times every day during air raids over Lebanon. If a fighter pilot sees the fiery blob of rockets being launched toward Israeli cities, should he go ahead and blast the target - even though it might kill Lebanese women and children near the site where Hizballah militiamen are launching their rockets...
...mainly children, who had taken shelter from a heavy Israeli bombardment in an apartment building in Qana. The incident remains under investigation, and few details of the actual attack are known. But an Israeli Colonel, who asked to be identified only by his initial A. and who commands a fighter squadron that has flown 1,000 sorties over Lebanon during the past 20 days, spoke exclusively to TIME about the agonizing choices in general that Israeli pilots are forced to make while fighting an enemy who disguises himself among the ordinary Lebanese people...
...double-check that a target is free of civilians before he presses the trigger on his weapons. Before firing, the pilot must first get clearance from a superior officer tapped into intelligence data and in radio contact with ground troops. Still, the decision to fire ultimately rests with the fighter pilot. "We've had many cases of canceling missions, returning with our bombs, because at the last minute the pilot saw people who weren't Hizballah," says Col. A, who points out that in the dozens of daily sorties made by his pilots, they nearly always hit their targets without...
...very cautious - for moral reasons and because we know the strategic consequences," he says referring to the tragedy in Qana, which raised an international outcry against the Israelis. He recounted one incident in which a fighter jet hit a rocket launcher once, but the pilot wasn't sure that the launcher was destroyed. When he put his jet into a dive for a second attack, he pulled out at the last second when he saw that many civilians had come running to the target after his first attack. The strike was called...