Material for global news feeds. War in Lebanon "collateral" damages. "During the July war between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah forces, many Lebanese civilians were killed and infrastructures were destroyed. Normal life across Lebanon and northern Israel was disrupted. Even if the Israeli government assured that the army only targeted Hezbollah positions, and that damages to civilian structures were incidental or resulting from Hezbollah's use of the population as human shields, the kind of attacks, the damages and deaths make the justification ring hollow.”