It will need to tread carefully in dealing with several combustible issues, foremost among them being the Shifa Hospital and the ever-increasing threat from Hezbollah.

The proportionality of the attack is not measured by the number of civilian casualties that it resulted in; rather it is determined by what the commanding officer knew or should have known in real time when the attack was planned and executed.

Speaking to CNN, Netanyahu asserts that “100 or so” people had been evacuated from the Shifa Hospital and that Israel had created safe corridors.