Civilian toll mounts in Lebanon conflict - At hospitals in Tyre, wounded cry out for slain loved ones
By Anthony Shadid
The Washington Post 24 July 06 |
By Megan K. Stack
Los Angeles Times 25 July 06 TYRE, Lebanon - In the burning haze of the missile strike, Qasim Chaalan thought he had died. But piece by piece, he noticed that he was still there, inside the ambulance. He could still feel his body. He opened his eyes, and discovered he could see.
He and the other medics were lucky: They had survived the blow of an Israeli missile. Dazed and slow, one of the men fumbled for the radio and began, "We have an accident.... " He didn't finish the sentence. A second missile smashed with a roar into the ambulance behind them. |
Scotsman
26/07/2006 FOUR UN observers were reported to have been killed yesterday when their post was hit by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon.
"One aerial bomb directly impacted the building and shelter in the base of the United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon in the area of Khiam," said Milos Strugar, a spokesman for the UNIFIL peacekeeping force. He declined to say how many had died, but confirmed there had been casualties. Mr Strugar said air attacks had continued in the area as rescuers attempted to reach the wounded. The strike came shortly after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, left Israel following two days of half-hearted diplomacy. Mr Strugar added: "There are casualties among the observers. A UNIFIL-dispatched rescue team which is on the spot is still unable to clear the rubble. Comment: Traditionally (and it is sad that that word is so appropriate), when UN posts are bombed in war, it is to prevent UN observation of war crimes.
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CNN via ICH
24 July 06 CNN video correspondent, Karl Penhaul, follows a family that had been mistakenly caught in an Israeli air strike. The doctor treating the family says that there is phosphorus in the weapons that cause extremely painful burns on it's victims.
- WARNING - Graphic images depicting the reality and horror of Israel's Invasion and destruction of Lebanon. |
By Patrick Seale
Al-Hayat 21 July 06 Israel is waging a war of extermination in Lebanon. Without regard to the civilian population, it is seeking to destroy Hizballah, much as it has attempted over the past six months to destroy Hamas in the occupied Palestinian territories. It wants to root out these movements altogether.
Its strategy in Lebanon seems to be to empty the south of its population, driving the Shi'ites out of their traditional homeland, where they have lived for centuries, in much the same way as it continues its pitiless onslaught on Gaza. In Lebanon, some 600,000 people have already been displaced, while the entire country is being brutalized and strangled. |
By Mike Whitney
Information Clearing House 25 July 06 |
By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times 25 July 06 As southern Lebanon is turned into a wasteland mirroring the Gaza gulag, Washington neo-cons may stridently celebrate the contours of a final solution for the Hamas-Hezbollah "problem". Or should they?
Israel's feverish military machine at least conveys the impression it knows exactly what it's doing - with its made-in-the-USA bombs destroying not just military but civilian targets. But this does not mean Israel is winning its war against Hezbollah. |
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