A Time magazine article on what goes through the minds of Isra

In the wake of the deadly Qana airstrike, everyone is second-guessing the Israeli military. But as one veteran pilot tells TIME, the decision whether to attack what could be the enemy or innocent civilians is never made lightly

How do you make a moral, life-or-death decision while streaking across the Lebanese sky at twice the speed of sound? That is the excruciating dilemma that Israeli pilots say they face dozens of times every day during air raids over Lebanon. If a fighter pilot sees the fiery blob of rockets being launched toward Israeli cities, should he go ahead and blast the target — even though it might kill Lebanese women and children near the site where Hizballah militiamen are launching their rockets?

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