The [Nahal] soldiers expressed great frustration that Hezbollah made use of civilian locations from which to strike, regroup and resupply.
"The lines are very blurred," said infantryman Jason Reich, 24.
Gabe Avner, 21, recalled seeing an elderly Lebanese woman carrying a sack of food from one house to another. He suspected she might have been helping a Hezbollah fighter. But he could not know for sure.
"Obviously I can't shoot her and have that on my conscience," he said.
And from the same story, the words of the son of a close friend of mine from Betar days 40 years ago:-
Brian Waxman, a member of the program from Queens, N.Y., said he was stunned by how entrenched and concealed the enemy was.
"I think the Israeli army was very surprised at the beginning," he said of their arrival in Lebanese villages. "You get there, and there are bunkers that we had no idea were there, with rockets being set off that you can't see where they come from.
"It is very tough. You say guerrilla warfare, and you think of a couple of guys who set something off. But these people are very organized."
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