Just the right balance needs to be struck. And it is a balanced approach. You do not get a blank prohibition, which allows for the targeted killing if the weight of certain evidence and the need to prevent more deaths is there. But you also do not get the blank prohibition against it, which would prevent just punishment and death prevention. Overall, a balanced approach.

why tf do we accept this stupid court to decide on security issues criminals r finding new ways to kill civilians and jews at every corner so targeting them is trhe right way to go lets not stop AMEN

for extrajudicial assasination they don't need a court's rule to permit it !!

Israel is the only country in the world that legalizes torture, assassinations, and home demolitions and then wonders why many people hate Israel. It’s not anti-Semitism why people hate Israel, it is Israel’s immorality. Muslim from Hebron

wht a crime for u to live in such a hell country but i see ur not ready to give it up by going where u belong meaning real hell i hope to have good news soon tht ur ready to go shalom

this piece of news isnt a surprise at all from the killers of prophets , what occupation can do other than this,

The judges stressed that civil targets must not be subject to a military offensive; there must be a distinction between combatants and civilians, etc. I read elsewhere that civilians or the families of civilians need to be compensated. But what is a civilian target in time of war. The civilians support the terrorists that hide amongst them. Why shouldn't we then consider the entire populace the enemy as the allies did during the second world war?

If you are an upstanding citizen you can live a pretty good life in Israel. You can even express a politcally unpopular opinion in Israel as you've done here without being hunted down, tortured and murdered as would happen in any number of the Arab dictatorships surrounding Israel. Go out and propagate publicly what you've written here in any number of Arab dictatorships and see what they do to you. Why do so many Arabs prefer to live as Israeli citizens within the "green line" rather than under the harsh and repressive hand of the Palestinian Authority?

The Court has not established that "customary international law" is applicable to this case. "Customary international law" is "law" that has NOT been adopted via explicit treaty, meaning that it has never been adopted by the Knesset or Government. This is, in other words, yet another bit of muscle flexing by the court, even though in this case the court has ruled in a way that most want it to rule.

because no Court or UN Human Rights Forum can prevent intended victims from defending themselves by targeting the killers.

However your courts are only as intelligible as Olmert boob the great. You should CAPTURE targetted criminal bring before JUSTICE, and TRY THEM FAIR and then give their punishment. Even if you miss any component of this procedure you will breach human rights. Do you have Death Sentence? How can you kill a person without a death sentence ? A good court decision to show what you are!

You wrote: "You should CAPTURE targetted criminal bring before JUSTICE, and TRY THEM FAIR and then give their punishment." To our shame, Israel has no capital punishment for mass-murderers. The last mass-murderer that was put to death in Israel was the Nazi mass-murderer Adolph Eichamann in the nineteen sixties. Consequently, the only way to execute the murderer in Israel is to do it in the battle field. While I would agree with you, capturing and trying the criminal in a court of law would be nice, as has happened with Saddam Hussein, this is not always the case. Remember Saddam's sadistic sons were pulverized by the Americans while hiding in an Iraqi safe-house. There was no international outcry then. The US assassinated some Al Queda operatives by means of an unmanned drone in Yemen. U.S. would love to target Osama bin Laden if his cave's location could be discovered. Isn't war a matter of targeting the enemy and killing him? Many believed arch-terrorist Yassir Arafat -- who was conducting terror operations from his Ramallah headquarters --- should have been targeted. Why not? Wouldn't the allies have targeted Adolf Hitler if they knew where his bunker was? Why should he have been captured and brought to justice?

Stopping targeted killings is in the hands of the enemy. They can stop the targetted killings against them by stopping planning, preparing for, initiating and executing terror attacks against Israelis and Jews abroad. Any human beings under attack for any reason, have the absolute right to defend themselves and prevent attacks against themselves through targeted killings of intending perpetrators or other pre-emptive action.

What did the court rule ? they said that targeted killing is permitted , unther certain conditions . Those conditions were already fullfilled by the IDF , who liquidated only people directly involved in terrorist acts . Sometimes "innocent' bystanders fell also victim of this actions , they were on the wrong place on the wrong moment . But the palestinians know that Israel do not kills blindly . What happened some weeks ago ? when those palestinian women came to an announced target by IAF , and stood there as human shields . they were NOT innocent bystanders , they CAME SPECIALLY to this place , and they KNEW Israel will not attack them . And afterwards they chanted victory . The contrary with hamas and other terrorists , who send their bombers and quassams only to kill as many Israelis as possible . WITHOUT any outcry from those "human rights" minded good souls . It was the high court's businnes , since "human rights" groups had submitted complaints to this juridiction . In wich country surrounding Israel can you do something like this ?

Targeted Killing ? If a group , territory , Nation or other, openly declares war on you, decades all of their resources , to your destruction, is killing you and your loved ones, guess what you are at WAR, and by all rules of engagements, he and his followers are legal combants, are soldiers, no more no less, where their field of battle is fought, is their choice not YOURS, where you hunt this enemy is THEIR choice not YOURS… it is where you can find them, be it on a field of conventional war, or a hidden cave, that is where the fight is … period To fall into their blame game, that you are assassinating them is their shield of propaganda, what do they call it when they kill your innocent civilians .. do they not call it WAR ?