Israellycool live-blogged the events of Friday. Great and informative stuff, as always.
Since “restraint” is the topic d’jour around these parts, I’ll pluck this interesting tidbit from the Israeli paper Ha’aretz:
The Israel Defense Forces is planning to bomb Hezbollah headquarters in a densely populated area of south Beirut on Friday, a senior General Staff official told Haaretz.
The IDF said it has dropped leaflets warning civilians of the impending attack and that many of them have left the Shi’ite Dahiya quarter of south Beirut, where thousands of people live in multi-story residential buildings.
“We will atack more significant targets than we have attacked until now,” the officer said. “If we had chosen to bomb earlier, it would have ended with hundreds of civilians killed, and we took ethical considerations into account. On the other hand, we will not adopt a naive approach, and the model of terrorists hiding behind civilians will not be accepted.”
He said any civilian who chooses to remain in the area is putting his life in danger.
Hezbollah head Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has his office and residence in south Beirut. Hezbollah’s Shura Council, its decision-making body, and the TV station are also located in that area, a section heavily guarded by Hezbollah.
Emphasis added.
UPDATE by Michael van der Galien
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