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===Dahiya doctrine===
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The Dahiya doctrine<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1198 |title=From War to Deterrence? Israel-Hezbollah Conflict Since 2006 |access-date=12 January 2015 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112235445/http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1198 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is a military strategy of [[asymmetric warfare]], outlined by former IDF Chief of General Staff [[Gadi Eizenkot]], which encompasses the use of aerial and artillery fire against civilian infrastructure used by terrorist organizations<ref name=Byman>'the threat to destroy the civilian infrastructure of hostile regimes, as Israel did to the Dahiya neighbourhood of Beirut, where Hizbollah was headquartered in 2006'  Daniel Byman , [https://archive.org/details/highpricetriumph0000byma/page/364 ''A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism''], Oxford University Press, 2011 p.364</ref> and endorses the employment of "disproportionate power" to secure that end.<ref name=harelEisenkot>{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/analysis-idf-plans-to-use-disproportionate-force-in-next-war-1.254954|title=ANALYSIS / IDF plans to use disproportionate force in next war|work=Haaretz|author=Amos Harel|date=5 October 2008|access-date=3 October 2014|archive-date=6 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006212036/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/analysis-idf-plans-to-use-disproportionate-force-in-next-war-1.254954|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="FinallyRealizes">[http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3605863,00.html "The Dahya Strategy: Israel finally realizes that Arabs should be accountable for their leaders’ acts"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224014903/http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3605863,00.html |date=24 December 2011 }} The Dahya strategy, according to IDF Northern Command Chief Gadi Eisenkot. Interview in Yedioth Ahronoth. 10.06.08.</ref> The doctrine is named after the [[Dahieh]] neighborhood of Beirut, where [[Hezbollah]] was headquartered during the [[2006 Lebanon War]], which were heavily damaged by the IDF.<ref name=Byman />