Mass funerals in southern Lebanon

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel_1189

QANA, Lebanon - The breeze blew fine dust across graves where 29 people killed in an Israeli airstrike — half of them children — were buried, as the ground was opened for funerals in south Lebanon on Friday, the Muslim holy day.

Women in black robes, their heads hidden by black scarves, held pictures of the dead and threw rice and rose petals on the plywood caskets in the village of Qana, struck during the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah war. Twenty-six coffins were draped in the Lebanese flag and three in the yellow Hezbollah flag.

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Qana, about six miles southeast of the port city of Tyre, held the most elaborate of several funerals in southern Lebanon on Friday after residents decided it was finally safe and hospital morgues made sure all bodies could be claimed. A caravan of cars made its way from one service to the next.

"This is the day to bury our dead," said Shiite cleric Sheik Shoue Qatoon. "It was decided that we would schedule the funerals so that we could all attend them all."

During the war, bodies were taken to the Tyre morgue and later buried in a shallow mass grave when refrigerated trucks holding the corpses became too crowded. On Friday, the bodies were exhumed and taken to the home villages for burial. The coffins were marked with the names of the dead.

[IntiRaymi]

1. Look at all those terrorists, holding up portraits of terrorists.

:sarcasm:

[fooj]

2. Look at the children.......

:cry:

[riverwalker]

3. those faces

those beautiful children.:cry:

"Never again,
Never again"
The calls for "never again" always seem to have so many exceptions... Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan, Palestine, and Lebanon...
This is genocide.

[UrbScotty]

4. Words can't describe... (nt)

[DesertRat]

5. Precious children, now gone

WHY?? :cry: