VOA: Civilians Bear Brunt of Israeli Bombardment in South Lebanon

[Karmadillo]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-07-25-voa23.cfm

Southern Lebanon is bearing the brunt of Israeli airstrikes that have now gone on nearly two weeks. The towns and villages of the Shiite-dominated south have been pounded by artillery, killing more than 370 people and wounding many more. Hezbollah has continued firing rockets into northern Israel, but only a handful of Hezbollah militants are known to have been killed in the fighting. The vast majority of the victims in Lebanon are civilians.

Most of the bombs come from far above, from planes flying so high that they appear to the naked eye like tiny specks streaking across the sky.

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Doctor Abdullah Shehab is checking on a patient, a seven-year-old girl named Samah, who arrived at the hospital Sunday, after she was wounded in an Israeli air strike. He says she has shrapnel wounds, some of them quite deep.

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"It is the worst war that we have seen between the five wars here in Sour," he said. "The number of wounded persons, the majority serious, all of them civilians. All of them. There is no soldier between them. 'Till now we receive 331, and I see that it is a war against the civilian persons, against the cars taking civilians running out from here. It is a war against humanity."

The Israeli military says its bombing is harming civilians because Hezbollah is hiding its rocket launchers in civilian neighborhoods, using the people of southern Lebanon as human shields.

But there have been numerous strikes on vehicles moving to evacuate residents and on ambulances trying to rescue the wounded. Trucks trying to bring food and medical supplies to the south have been blown off the roads.

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[Xeric]

1. war crimes

Bush, Olmert and the neocons should be on trial at the Hague. Too bad so many have fallen for this phase of the neocon agenda. I hear so many parroting their talking points. This has been planned for over a year.