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| Israel Threatens to Attack Civilians, Accuses Hizbullah of Using them as 'Human Shields' |
| 2014-01-31 |
| [An Nahar] Israel accused Hizbullah of establishing bases in residential areas and using civilians as "human shields," vowing to destroy them in any conflict in the future. Israeli air force chief Major-General Amir Eshel issued his threats in an attempt to prepare the world for high civilian casualties in case a new confrontation with Hizbullah erupted. "We will have to deal aggressively with thousands of Hizbullah bases which threaten the State of Israel and mainly our interior," Eshel said in a speech at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, a think-tank near Tel Aviv. The Israeli official pointed out that Beirut, the Bekaa valley and the South are among the targets. Eshel said Hizbullah uses at times the entire storeys of a residential facility to be used in battles. He accused the party of using civilians as "human shield." Eshel said that the Israeli forces are more powerful than Hizbullah with more capabilities than in 2006. "Our ability today to attack targets on a large scale and with high precision is about 15 times greater than what we did in the (2006) war," he stressed. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Israel Threatens to Attack Civilians I would have posed the headline as "Israel Threatens to Fight Back", but that's just me. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-01-31 19:27 |