to leave Aitaroun. The IDF had considered such movement suspicious, as it claimed that "all Lebanese civilians had observed its warnings to evacuate villages south of the Litani river" and thus there was "no need to discriminate between military objectives and civilians".

After the war, Israeli deputy ambassador to the UN, Daniel Carmon, justified attacks on civilians by stating "there is hardly any distinction between Hezbollah and the civilian population [in southern Lebanon]. This whole region