The Israelis assert that they do not target civilians while Hezbollah aims its rockets at non-combatants in Israel. Especially if you are the government of western country. The response, however, would raise some adrenaline for another, “fix”. In an August 2014 interview with Yahoo News, chief Hamas-hole Khaled Meshaal said; . Hezbollah Lawmaker Says Group Targeted Civilians Only in Reprisal . We do not have the weapons available to our enemy so aiming is difficult. Yet it does intentionally target civilians: it is intended to produce maximal civilian distress, while avoiding mass civilian casualties.. The IDF is another army. We do not target civilians, and we try most of the time to aim at military targets and Israeli bases.But we admit that we have a problem. As a result, according to the Associated Press, by August 3 at least 525 Lebanese have died from Israeli action, 450 of whom have been civilians. Amnesty Int'l report condemns Hezbollah for "serious violations of international law, amounting to war crimes." Hamas fighters are Palestinian civilians dressed as civilians, indistinguishable from peaceful civilians, hiding behind civilians, targeting, and killing civilians (on both sides of the fence). The Israel-Gaza conflict, since it began, has killed 1,170 people.Of those, a shocking 815 are thought to be Palestinian civilians, and 232 of those children. In discussions about the Israeli-Arab conflict, one of the perennial issues is the targeting of non-combatants. Israeli policy (unlike Hamas or Hezbollah) is not intended to maximize civilian casualties. In other words, it was Israel that first launched attacks on civilians. We do not have sophisticated weapons. Targeting civilians doesn’t win them battles and yet it happens.. Nowadays, with social media taking over, it is not very smart to target civilians. So far, Hamas has proven itself to be rather incompetent, hiding behind civilians and firing unguided rockets that have little chance of finding a valuable target.