User:M. Butterfly

M. Butterfly is surprisingly apt at adapting, and very curious.

Things to add to the 2006 Lebanon War page
Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Israel has no intention to harm Lebanese civilians, but warned that civilians who live near Hizbullah weapon caches were in danger.


 * "Because we know that some of their rocket caches, which are fired at Israel, are hidden in private apartments, I call on these residents to leave their homes. He who lives near a rocket is likely to get hurt," he said.

The IDF claims that Hizbullah is preventing villagers from leaving

A senior IDF official claimed that Hizbullah has been hiding a large quantity of long-range rockets in specially-designed rooms built in houses in Southern Lebanon villages, operating under the assumption that the Israeli army will have difficulty in locating them and that it would prefer not to harm villages. 

According to a senior IDF officer, civilians who were storing rockets in their houses have been hit in some of the strikes. “We have no intention of hurting civilians, but those who live by the sword are bound to get hurt,” he stressed. 

The IDF has distributed flyers urging south Lebanese to leave before bombradment occured