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Sure it did. Setting off bombs in residential areas will always have non-combatant casualties.

"Intent" mind reading or not. This is what happened and is a terrorist act.

Setting off bombs frequently results in non-combatant casualties no matter where it happens. Hezbollah has no "military bases" so I don't know what you expect.

The existence of non-combatant casualties doesn't make the strike illegal.

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