Targeting civilians is a war crime regardless of the perpetrator

LOLA COHEN and Joy Wolfe (Irish Examiner letters, August 12) seem a bit confused in their criticism of Anti-War Ireland and of our call on Israel to end its mass murder of innocent civilians in Lebanon and Palestine.

Both infer, disgracefully, that Anti-War Ireland applauds Hezbollah’s rocket attacks into northern Israel. This is a willful misrepresentation of the anti-war movement’s position.

Let us be very clear about this: we consider the deliberate targeting of civilians to be a war crime, regardless of who carries out the attack.