according to laws of war, israel was justified in its pager attack  israel was justified in its pager attack. > the international community and its academic justifiers have claimed that israels attacks on hezbollah communications devices are unlawful. they are dead wrong. > the law of war is based on two fundamental principles: first, the distinction between the targeting of combatants and civilians; second, the requirement of proportionality in attacking targets that include both. under these principles, israels actions were completely justified. > they must satisfy the criteria of proportionality, which means that the anticipated civilian casualties must be proportional to the military value of the combatant targets. there is no magic formula for achieving this result. the military action must simply be reasonable under the circumstances. israel was able to determine through a tactical manner how to inflict the greatest amount of damage with the least amount of casualties.    tional/4894699-dershowitz-israels-p ager-attack-was-legal-under-the-law s-of-war/
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