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...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...
...with the knowledge that Israel was not going to cease its attacks soon. The night before, she had had dinner with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who told her that Israel needed 10 days to two weeks to complete its military operations. The attack on Qana - apparently the site of rocket launches against Israel - occured shortly after midnight...
Simon and Hillel Executive Director Bernard Steinberg said at the time that the trip’s itinerary would be changed to avoid the northern parts of the country, including the city of Haifa, where Hezbollah rocket attacks have been common...
...Students from Haifa have been arriving on campus in waves this week as Hezbollah rockets continue to destroy homes and kill civilians there. One student told me she was awakened one recent morning by a Katyusha rocket. She and her friends, following directions broadcasted over loudspeakers, quickly moved into the bomb shelter in their dormitory. After 50 hours they emerged, packed up their belongings, and drove south...
...strikes aren' t always enough. Some Israeli military officers are worried that the war is being waged the way the guerrillas want, dragging the Israeli Defense Forces into prolonged and messy battles on alien turf. Early on, the Israeli plan was to launch swift punches on the militants' rocket-launching positions and then to withdraw. But Hizballah began to play the game by their rules, drawing the Israeli troops into lengthy ambushes in places where their vaunted 21st-century war machine was of little or no use. Not only were the guerrillas masters of the terrain, but they were equipped...