The difference between "specifically targetting non-combatants" and "targetting combatants but not caring much if you hit non-combatants" is what precisely?
The claim that "Israel has done everything in <cite>Her</cite> power to not hit non-combatants" rings pretty false, because last I checked, Israel still had the power to not go to war, not fire bombs, not do a great many things which result in civilian deaths. As for the "human sheild" business, it's a guerilla war. If you bomb a populated area in hopes of getting the "bad guy," you are going to get some other people too. Only in the movies, and not even if all of them, does the magic police marksman shoot the bad guy and let the weeping hostage run free. Besides which, in this situation, even if you have the miraculous Israeli bomber kill the Hezbollah fighter but somehow leave all the noncombatants untouched, the noncombatants are more likely to say, "Those bastards just killed my brother!"
Also, who exactly are the Hezbollah fighters? The people currently fighting? The ones who used to be fighting, but have retired due to age or infirmity? The ones who would be fighting if they could, but instead just raise money or provide other services? The friends and relatives of all of the above?
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