Stench of death hangs over south Lebanon villages

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01 Aug 2006 15:40:00 GMT
Source: Reuters

BINT JBEIL, Lebanon, Aug 1 (Reuters) - "TAKE US WITH YOU"



The blackened remains of burnt-out petrol stations dot the roads between villages, many of which have seen entire streets or quarters flattened, trapping anyone sheltering inside.

The smell of dead bodies hangs over Bint Jbeil, dubbed the "capital of liberation" by Hizbollah in honour of the war of attrition the guerrilla group waged against Israel until it ended 22 years of occupation in 2000.

In Aynata, a youth showed journalists to places where bodies remained buried beneath the rubble, with no one able to remove them under fire. Locals left signs to mark where they lay.

In Aitaroun, accessible only by dirt road after the main route from Bint Jbeil was cut off by fighting, southerners gathered weeping and holding on to visiting journalists begging them not to leave them behind.

Some of them sat in cars or open trucks waiting to leave. Some had no cars and hitched rides with visiting journalists. Most were women, children and elderly people.

more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01919506.htm

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1. back up there for those in denial about the effects of Israel's assaults

[tnlefty]

2. I saw a reporter this morning who stated that he and his crew had

taken 20 people from an area around Tyre, and that other reporters had done the same. He stated that the people there had taken shelter when the bombing started and because they had no radio or other sources of information, they were afraid to leave and had no idea of where to try to begin to go and that most of them would've been walking. Reporters had been filmed carrying people or aiding them in walking. It blew my mind.

He mentioned that aid relief workers were having difficulty getting around and that the IDF was slow in granting clearances, etc.

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3. 750 Dead

"The Lebanese government says dozens of bodies have yet to be recovered from beneath the rubble or from cars hit by Israeli missiles. The government has so far put the war's death toll at 750, including unrecovered bodies."

Let's keep this kicked.

[partylessinOhio]

4. Yes, keep this kicked for all to see the War Crimes.

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5. And there are still Israeli apologists anywhere? That's the same

thing as saying that there's justification for what we did in Iraq.

[malaise]

6. It doesn't matter

what Israel does, there are people who will defend it.