> Firing from schools, hospitals and resendential buildings.

I really don't want to descend into countless counterexamples, but that's how virtually every military or militia wages war, including the IDF. I assume your confusion on this issue may be due to a lack of familiarity with the subject.

Usually never ever has anything to do with malevolence (eg. in an attempt to use the counter strike as a propaganda story). More often, it's just a matter of convenience, logistics, and the realities of operating in populated areas.

If there's one thing that CIA manuals on training militias stressed on, or any military history book in that regard, it's that soldiers need to be fed and supported. Or they'll find ways to meet those needs without you.

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Protostome 2 days ago | parent [-]

Are you saying that every militia and army use hospitals as a base from which to wage war? (e.g. firing rockets, artillery shells, etc)

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eagleal 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Units will use any reinforced or cover position to carry their objective.

Even roofs of civilians apartments, let alone reinforced structures such as hospitals, town halls, schools, etc if they can't use alternatives.

Even antique frontal wars used terrain to their advantage. That's why we wrote rules of engagement, but if the bigger powers themselves abuse them, how can you expect militias that have to carry guerrilla or urban tactics to stand by them?

	▲	Protostome 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, every choice has a consequence. For Israel the choice was accept rockets fired on Israeli towns on a regular basis(not settlements, btw, just towns within the 1948 UN recognized borders of Israel) or respond. BTW, The response came after texting the residents, distributing leaflets and annoncening in every way possible that the place is going to be bombed. BTW (2), For years Israel avoided bombing dense residential areas, despite knowing the origin of those rockets.

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za3faran 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The whole world saw US soldiers in the Gulf states hiding in hotels when US bases were struck.