Where Were the Leaflets?

From The Washington Post:

Just before noon Sunday, officials in this hilltop village near the Lebanese border sent out a cellphone text message: "Everybody go down to the shelters immediately." A siren reiterated the warning over loudspeakers.

Residents, who had already suffered one uncomfortably close barrage of rockets that morning, packed their families into two bomb shelters and nervously played card games and listened to the radio to hear where the next volley landed.

But a group of army reservists, gathered in the parking lot beyond the community's yellow metal gate, stayed put. Some sat in cars, some apparently stood nearby or rested on foam mattresses. Recent call-ups, they had received their uniforms a day earlier and been promptly sent to the front.

Within minutes of the alert, more than a dozen rockets slammed into the surrounding hills, setting dry brush ablaze. And one crashed down among the troops, killing 12 and wounding six in the deadliest Hezbollah attack of the war.

From Haaretz:

Nearly 400 rockets were fired at the north over the weekend, killing six people. This brings to 33 the number of Israeli civilians killed since the fighting in the north began on July 12.

Hezbollah fired 170 Katyushas across northern Israel yesterday. A barrage of 130 rockets landed between 4 P.M. and 5 P.M. Fadiya Juma'a, 60, and her daughters Sultana, 31, and Samira, 33, were killed when their home in the Bedouin village of Arab Aramshe absorbed a direct hit.

Kiryat Shmona was hit by about 30 rockets at the same time, which damaged a factory in the city. Safed, Maghar, Nahariya, Ma'alot, Shlomi, Rosh Hanikra and Acre were also hit. Some home and infrastructure damage was reported.

Eleven rockets landed in the suburban Krayot area of Haifa. Frida Kellner, 87, of Kiryat Ata, had a heart attack after she returned home from a bomb shelter and died on the way to hospital. Six people were lightly injured by shrapnel and about a dozen were treated for shock. One rocket in the barrage hit an apartment block, causing a fire. A local fire station also sustained some damage when a rocket landed nearby.

...About 190 rockets were fired at Israel on Friday. In addition, at least one long-range missile fell near Hadera on Friday, apparently causing no damage. Two people were treated for shock. These missile strikes reached deeper into Israel than any previous strike. Police Northern Command chief Major General Dan Ronen confirmed the landing. Hezbollah released a statement late Friday claiming to have fired its "Khaibar 1" missiles at Hadera. The same type of missile landed near Afula last week.

Manal Azzam, 27, was killed when a rocket slammed in the home next to hers in the mixed Druze-Muslim-Christian village of Maghar in the Lower Galilee. Her two children were slightly injured by shrapnel. Azzam was buried Friday evening. Baha Karim, 36, and Mohammed Subhi Manar, 24, were killed when a rocket landed near their car as they were traveling in Majdal Krum, near Carmiel. Seventeen other residents were injured, one seriously and two moderately.

A resident of She'ar Yeshuv, near Kiryat Shmona, was critically wounded in a rocket strike Friday.

...According to police, 2,700 rockets have been fired at Israel since the beginning of the war on July 12.

Question:

How many leaflets have been dropped by Hezbollah warning Israeli civilians to flee before it launches its rocket attacks?

Also from Haaretz, a Reuters report:

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told European leaders to stop preaching to him about civilian war casualties in an interview published on Sunday in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

Olmert also said it would not be possible to completely destroy Hezbollah and insisted he did not underestimate them.

"Where do they get the right to preach to Israel?" Olmert said when asked about criticism from European capitals of Israeli military operations that have led to a heavy civilian toll.

"European countries attacked Kosovo and killed ten thousand civilians. Ten thousand! And none of these countries had to suffer before that from a single rocket.

Because Hezbollah hides among innocents, the Israelis are giving Lebanese citizens warning to move from the danger.

Of course, that means that Hezbollah can move as well. They are being told in advance that there's going to be an attack.

That's an obvious disadvantage for Israeli forces. There's no element of surprise when they circulate leaflets indicating their plans and targets; but it's being done to protect the civilians being exploited by the Hezbollah cowards.

Show me a civilian warning leaflet from Hezbollah. Show me any indication from Hezbollah that an effort is being made to protect Israeli civilians.

You can't, because they are targeting civilians. That's what they do.

They want all Israelis dead.

Where is the moral equivalence?

There isn't any.