After fortifying themselves in the base, Hizbullah members had fired dozens of Katyusha rockets on towns and villages in northern Israel, which, as was the right of all sovereign States, could not and would not tolerate bombs falling on its territory and stand by while its people were being killed.
以色列像所有主权国家那样，不能也不会容忍炸弹落在它的领土上，听任它的人民被打死而袖手旁观。