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The northern settlements were largely evacuated and used by the IDF. The party to this conflict that systematically targets civilians is the state of Israel.

One could make the argument that the US and Israel committing genocide makes paramilitary action against them legal, since the US controls the UN security council through their veto power.

Right now Israel is an occupying power that systematically destroys civilian infrastructure and threatens an international force in Lebanon, making it permissible to fight back.

> Not a single person criticizing the pager bombs mention the reason for the operation.

I'd enter into a conversation like that assuming the other parties in the conversation were aware there was a war going on.