I have pondered over this issue and I have looked at various news piece on this, and here is my question: How do we know that Hizbollah is fighting this war with only their assigned solders? Isn't it possible that the common men have come out to join forces with them, just because they are being targeted? If yes, then what difference does it make if they fight on the border, ground, or assigned locations or just right there from their own homes? I think it is very much likely that these people are not really soldiers but common individuals. It is also very likely that most of them know how to use guns and what not (Arab culture).

I think Israel military knows this and they probably have...

I have pondered over this issue and I have looked at various news piece on this, and here is my question: How do we know that Hizbollah is fighting this war with only their assigned solders? Isn't it possible that the common men have come out to join forces with them, just because they are being targeted? If yes, then what difference does it make if they fight on the border, ground, or assigned locations or just right there from their own homes? I think it is very much likely that these people are not really soldiers but common individuals. It is also very likely that most of them know how to use guns and what not (Arab culture).

I think Israel military knows this and they probably have no choice but to attack the residential areas. Where do they morally stand on such attacks? I don't know.

@arifsali
We don't know if there are civilians fighting on the side of hezbollah, but considering the situation - highly unlikely. hezbollah on the other hand has been using their staging areas with high civilian population. One would question if that's a necessity from the stand of the area, i.e. there's nowhere else to place the katyushas... if that was the case, one could see why... but it is my understanding that it's not the case... they could easily do this well away from areas with many people... but they don't, clearly putting all of these civilians in harms way... intentionally. 1) it let's them hide the launchers/weapons to a degree 2) it allows them to possibly survive attacks s...

@arifsali
We don't know if there are civilians fighting on the side of hezbollah, but considering the situation - highly unlikely. hezbollah on the other hand has been using their staging areas with high civilian population. One would question if that's a necessity from the stand of the area, i.e. there's nowhere else to place the katyushas... if that was the case, one could see why... but it is my understanding that it's not the case... they could easily do this well away from areas with many people... but they don't, clearly putting all of these civilians in harms way... intentionally. 1) it let's them hide the launchers/weapons to a degree 2) it allows them to possibly survive attacks since they know the Israelis will try to avoid hitting civilians if they can and 3) if they do get hit - Israel gets slapped with all kinds of names from all kinds of countries and hezbollah comes out as defenders of the land. Certainly clever, convenient and works as intended.