South Lebanon Closed; Strikes Kill 19

[Poll_Blind]

From AP via RawStory:

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) - Israel shut down south Lebanon with a threat to blast any moving vehicles, as ground fighting intensified near the Israeli border, airstrikes killed at least 19 civilians and Arab governments called for a full Israeli withdrawal as a condition of any cease-fire.

With U.S., French and Arab negotiators meeting into the evening at the United Nations, Israel voiced cautious interest in a Lebanese proposal to deploy 15,000 soldiers to control the ground in south Lebanon where Hezbollah has been firing missiles into Israel. But the warring sides appeared to be some distance apart on the text of a possible resolution, now not expected to come before the Security Council before Thursday.

After four weeks of fighting, nearly 800 people have died on both sides. Rescuers in Lebanon pulled 28 additional corpses from the wreckage of Monday's attacks, raising that day's toll to 77 Lebanese - the deadliest single day of the war. Early Wednesday, Lebanese and Palestinian officials said Israeli gunboats shelled a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, causing a number of casualties.

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"There are two words that sum up where the humanitarian situation is, and these are 'not enough,'" said Wivina Belmonte of the U.N. Children's Fund. "Fuel supplies are not enough, hospitals are on life support, supplies of humanitarian goods trying to get into the country are not enough."

  So all of south Lebanon is now a free-fire zone? Hrm.

PB

[uppityperson]

1. bomb any vehicles.

christ. shit. fuck. (there, have covered all 3 categories of cuss words). damn it all anyway

[High Plains]

2. Stay and we will kill you. Move and we will kill you.

Might as well take some of the invaders with 'em then, I suppose.

[uppityperson]

3. indeed.

It could be here, Lebanon is not much different than anywhere else. It is wild. Heartbreaking.