Israel responded by bombing targets in Ba albek and a power station in Beirut. Typically, people on each side heard mostly one side of the story. Israeli news reports at the beginning of the crisis showed only the people in shelters in Kiriat Shmona. On the opposite side, it was surely symmetrical - reports showing the Lebanese who spent the nights in shelters. On Friday, Israeli television described the funerals of the two casualties at length, and barely mentioned that the bombing in Beirut killed as many as 17 civilians.
Bombing performed by the other side is always a barbaric criminal act.
Bombing by your side is always justified or can be ignored. In the U.S. as the bombing of Yugoslavia wore on and people tired of it , news stations barely reported them. Radio stations played the usual Sabbath music and had the usual innocuous talk shows. The Israelis can point to the suffering of their citizens, the Lebanese to the suffering of theirs. The people of each side for the most part honestly do not know what the other side has been doing.