Editing Hezbollah (section)

== Targeting policy ==
After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], Hezbollah condemned [[al-Qaeda]] for targeting civilians in the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]],<ref>{{cite book|editor1=James A Russell |editor2=James J. Wirtz|title=Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security|date=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-07970-4|page=86}}</ref><ref name=nationbuilder>{{cite web|url=http://cjpme.nationbuilder.com/fs_184|title=FS_184 |work=CJPME – English}}</ref> but remained silent on the attack on [[The Pentagon]].<ref name="nybooks"/><ref name="wp_inside_the_mind">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401401.html|title=Inside the Mind of Hezbollah|first=Robin|last=Wright|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=1 August 2006|date=16 July 2006}}</ref> Hezbollah also denounced the [[List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s|massacres in Algeria]] by [[Armed Islamic Group]], [[Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya]] attacks on tourists in [[Egypt]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Saad-Ghorayeb |first=Amal |url=https://archive.org/details/hizbullahpolitic0000saad |title=Hizbul̉lah : politics and religion |date=2002 |publisher=London; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-7453-1793-9 |pages=101}}</ref> the murder of [[Nick Berg]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3710057.stm|title=Muted Arab reaction to Berg beheading|first=Sebastian|last=Usher|publisher=BBC News |access-date=5 September 2013 | date=13 May 2004}}</ref> and [[ISIL]] [[November 2015 Paris attacks|attacks in Paris]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/100000004038242/hezbollah-chief-condemns-paris-attacks.html |title=Hezbollah chief condemns Paris attacks |format=video |agency=Reuters |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 November 2015 |access-date=21 October 2016}}</ref>

Although Hezbollah has denounced certain attacks on civilians, some people accuse the organization of the bombing of an Argentine synagogue in 1994. Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, Marcelo Martinez Burgos, and their "staff of some 45 people"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=10589|title=AMIA Probe Was Botched: Argentina|author=Larry Luxner|work=The Jewish Week|date=4 March 2006|access-date=5 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715134115/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=10589|archive-date=15 July 2010}}</ref> said that Hezbollah and their contacts in Iran were responsible for the [[AMIA Bombing|1994 bombing]] of a Jewish cultural center in Argentina, in which "[e]ighty-five people were killed and more than 200 others injured".<ref name="Argentine">{{cite news|url=http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=39104 |title=Former Iran leader sought in bombing |agency=Associated Press |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=25 October 2006 |access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref>

In August 2012, the United States State Department's counter-terrorism coordinator [[Daniel Benjamin]] said that Hezbollah "is not constrained by concerns about collateral damage or political fallout that could result from conducting operations there [in Europe]".<ref name="Hezbollah Europe hit3">{{cite news |url=https://news.yahoo.com/hezbollah-may-strike-europe-time-us-171516661.html |title=US warns Hezbollah may strike in Europe |work=Yahoo News |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=10 August 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813063517/http://news.yahoo.com/hezbollah-may-strike-europe-time-us-171516661.html|archive-date=13 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="Hezbollah Europe hit">{{cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=280819 |title=Hezbollah could hit Europe at any time, with no warning |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=10 August 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="Hezbollah Europe hit1">{{cite news |url=http://www.france24.com/en/20120810-hezbollah-may-strike-europe-time-us |title=Hezbollah may strike in Europe at any time: US |publisher=France 24 |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=10 August 2012 |access-date=10 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811154727/http://www.france24.com/en/20120810-hezbollah-may-strike-europe-time-us|archive-date=11 August 2012}}</ref>