there is a story in salon.com with the title: the "hiding among civilians" myth

it is written by mitch prothero a journalist that has been covering several conflicts in the past few years. he makes a big statement by labeling the hezbollah activity from within civilian population a myth, since this is the rational for the israeli bombing of cities and villages. if it is a myth it means that israel is targeting civilians for the sake of targeting civilians. not different from the hezbollah.

beside making the big statement he does little in his article in terms of backing up that claim. he provides anecdotal evidence from his personal experience, which is a common and effective method to make a point but it does not do much in terms of proving the point.

israel claims they trace where the rockets are fired from, and that in many cases they indeed come from within the cities and villages.

now you can claim israel is lying and they are just killing civilians for some unknown purpose (for sure it does not serve their interst), but to buy into that theory you need to believe there is a wide spread conspiracy. thousands of soldiers and government officials are involved. which is obviously ridiculous. but it's hard to argue with conspiracy theories.