'We are ready to fight, we are ready to die'

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Eleven-year-old Zahra sits on a desk in a crowded corridor of a west Beirut school and explains eloquently why she believes in the need for resistance.
"All children now want to grow up to fight Israel. It's shameful how we are being treated. What have we as children ever done to them? Nobody cares what happens to us, nobody will do anything if we don't defend ourselves."

Her friend Howra, also 11 and also a refugee from southern Lebanon now living in the school in Zarif, joins in. "Even if a thousand of our fighters are killed we will remain strong. Even with the Israeli technology, we are not afraid of them; we have the strongest fighters in the world."

Estimates of the number of Hizbullah fighters active in the field range from 1,000 to 10,000, with a potential reserve force as high as 200,000. But the daily killing of civilians has created a new militancy among Lebanon's youth, suggesting that Hizbullah can now mobilise thousands more.

Those keen to join the battle disregard the mounting number of deaths of Israeli civilians from Hizbullah's daily barrage of rockets compared to the much higher Lebanese toll.

Khilafah.com

[thereismore]

1. That's what happens. IMO, Israel started it. nt

[orwell]

2. Children writing on bombs...

...children vowing to fight to the death.

The whole situation is extremely sad.

The so-called leaders in this sorry world are marching us over the cliff to hell.