PCHR Killings
B'Tselem Fatalities
A Brutal Routine
Science of Suicide Bombing
Settler Violence
1st Month: 28 boys, 140
08/01/2003 - 09/01/2003
10/01/2003 - 11/01/2003
11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004
01/01/2004 - 02/01/2004
02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004
03/01/2004 - 04/01/2004
04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004
05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004
06/01/2004 - 07/01/2004
08/01/2004 - 09/01/2004
09/01/2004 - 10/01/2004
10/01/2004 - 11/01/2004
11/01/2004 - 12/01/2004
12/01/2004 - 01/01/2005
01/01/2005 - 02/01/2005
02/01/2005 - 03/01/2005
03/01/2005 - 04/01/2005
04/01/2005 - 05/01/2005
06/01/2005 - 07/01/2005
07/01/2005 - 08/01/2005
08/01/2005 - 09/01/2005
11/01/2005 - 12/01/2005
12/01/2005 - 01/01/2006
01/01/2006 - 02/01/2006
02/01/2006 - 03/01/2006
03/01/2006 - 04/01/2006
04/01/2006 - 05/01/2006
05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006
06/01/2006 - 07/01/2006
07/01/2006 - 08/01/2006
08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006
09/01/2006 - 10/01/2006
10/01/2006 - 11/01/2006
11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006
04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007
05/01/2007 - 06/01/2007
09/01/2007 - 10/01/2007
01/01/2009 - 02/01/2009
02/01/2009 - 03/01/2009
03/01/2009 - 04/01/2009
10/01/2009 - 11/01/2009
11/01/2009 - 12/01/2009
12/01/2009 - 01/01/2010
01/01/2010 - 02/01/2010
02/01/2010 - 03/01/2010
03/01/2010 - 04/01/2010
Israel and Palestine
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Unexploded cluster bombs prompt fear and fury in returning refugees: "Declan Walsh in Yahmour | Monday August 21, 2006 | The Guardian
Four dead as mine-clearing teams fear death toll from Israeli weapons could soar
...
Hurdling over lumps of crushed concrete and dodging spikes of twisted metal, Sukna, Hassan and Merwa, aged 10 to 12, paused before a curious object. Sukna picked it up. The terrifying blast flung her to the ground, thrusting metal shards into her liver. Hassan's abdomen was cut open. Merwa was hit in the leg and arm. ...
Hamas VII - An Israeli War Crime Goes Septic: "By Terrell E. Arnold | 8-25-6
The Israeli Zionist dream for Palestine is coming true. Deprived of food, water, electricity, money, medical care, safety, leadership, and official outside help, the Palestinians are turning on each other as they struggle to survive. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has made it clear that this is only the beginning. "Nobody dies from not having electricity," Olmert is said to have told his cabinet, and "no one in Gaza should sleep". Emphasizing that last point, low-flying IDF jets break the sound barrier over Gaza virtually every night.
The Palestinian government disaster was deliberately contrived by Israel, the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations. On top of this, the Israel Defense Force is conducting daily raids, bombings, attacks, kidnappings, and interference with human movements. The goal is to contrive the utter collapse of Palestinian society, while goading as many as possible into leaving, dying, or killing each other; it is doubtful that the Olmert government or its Zionist backers care which.
...
The writer is the author of the recently published work, A World Less Safe, now available on Amazon and through bookstores, and he is a regular columnist on rense.com. He is a retired Senior Foreign Service Officer of the US Department of State whose immediate pre-retirement positions were as Deputy Director of the State Office of Counter-Terrorism and Emergency Planning, and as Chairman of the Department of International Studies of the National War College. He will welcome comment at wecanstopit@charter.net.
Excite News: "Israeli raid in Lebanon tests truce | Aug 19, 8:09 AM (ET)| By Nadim Ladki
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Helicopter-borne Israeli commandos raided a Hizbollah bastion on Saturday in what Lebanon called a "naked violation" of the U.N.-backed truce that halted Israel's 34-day war with the Shi'ite Muslim group.
Israel said the operation in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley aimed to disrupt weapons supplies to Hizbollah from Syria and Iran. Both countries deny arming the group.
Lebanese security sources said three Hizbollah guerrillas were killed in a dawn firefight with the Israeli commandos. The Israeli army said it had suffered one dead and two wounded.
"It is a naked violation of the cessation of hostilities declared by the Security Council," Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told reporters.
Siniora said he had protested to visiting U.N. envoys who would take the matter up with Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The truce came into effect on Monday.
Commandos in two vehicles unloaded from helicopters were intercepted on their way to an office of a Hizbollah leader, Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, in the village of Bodai, the Lebanese sources said. The Israelis withdrew under cover of air strikes.
"Special forces carried out an operation to disrupt terror actions against Israel with an emphasis on the transfer of munitions from Syria and Iran to Hizbollah," Israel's army said. ...
Excite News: "Israeli aircraft attack eastern Lebanon: source | Aug 18, 9:47 PM (ET)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft fired several rockets at a target in a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon early on Saturday morning, a Lebanese security source said.
It was not immediately clear what the Israeli aircraft were firing at in the village of Bodai.
An Israeli army spokesman said the army was checking the report.
Such an attack would be the first since a U.N. truce ended 34 days of fighting between Israeli forces and Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. ...
Maan News Agency: "Israeli forces demolish home with family still inside, father and son killed | Date: 16 / 08 / 2006 Time: 10:46
Khan Younis-Ma'an-A Palestinian father, 65 and his son, 45, were killed and another 2 seriously injured in an Israeli air strike on a home in Sheikh Nasser, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, an activist affiliated to the Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, was killed and another one arrested during an armed clash in Al Farahin, east of Khan Younis.
Medical sources at the Nasser hospital said that Hasan Sha'ath, 65, and his son Ibrahim, 45, who were killed in the air strike, were totally dismembered when they were brought to the hospital. They said that the two injured people wwere in a critical condition.
Israeli F16 warplanes destroyed a three-floor building while some members of the Sha'ath family were still inside the house. " ...
mparent7777: Once a terrorist state decides to negotiate honestly peace soon follows. Why hasn't Israel done so?: "Too stubborn to change | Faisal Bodi | August 14, 2006 12:11 PM |
Israel's invasion of Lebanon has been a disaster, but there's little chance that it will change tack.
Truth might be the first casualty of every war, but not even the densest fog can hide the fact that Israel's invasion of Lebanon has been a moral, military and political disaster.
Not only has Israel burnished its reputation as a regional bully, it has also managed to acquire a new one for being more savage and indiscriminate than the foes its allies in the western media have effectively demonised as brutish reprobates. The statistics speak for themselves.
To date Israel has acknowledged the deaths of around 110 soldiers, compared to over 120 of its civilians, a nearly even combatant/civilian casualty ratio. Last Friday Israel showered west Beirut with leaflets naming 90 Hizbullah fighters it claims to have killed. Earlier in the same week Hizbullah named its dead in a list running to 53 martyrs. Several more were acknowledged to have died over the weekend. Against a UN figure of 1,020 Lebanese killed up that translates into a combatant/civilian deaths ratio of anywhere between 1:11 and 1:19.
Taking a median figure it means that Israel has killed nearly 15 times more civilians to every combatant than Hizbullah. Even if the figures are inaccurate owing to Hizbullah under-reporting of its own casualties, together with the evidence of civilian casualties and damage gathered by human rights activists, they point to a level of force far beyond any reasonable definition of proportionate.
This has been confirmed by the Arab media and reporters like Jonathan Cook who have resisted the hegemonic western narrative which sees Hizbullah as the indiscriminating protagonist, randomly raining down rockets on Israeli cities, while Israeli troops invariably execute precision strikes on rigorously selected military targets. ...
mparent7777: Once a terrorist state decides to negotiate honestly peace soon follows. Why hasn't Israel done so?: "Too stubborn to change | Faisal Bodi | August 14, 2006 12:11 PM |
Israel's invasion of Lebanon has been a disaster, but there's little chance that it will change tack.
Truth might be the first casualty of every war, but not even the densest fog can hide the fact that Israel's invasion of Lebanon has been a moral, military and political disaster.
Not only has Israel burnished its reputation as a regional bully, it has also managed to acquire a new one for being more savage and indiscriminate than the foes its allies in the western media have effectively demonised as brutish reprobates. The statistics speak for themselves.
To date Israel has acknowledged the deaths of around 110 soldiers, compared to over 120 of its civilians, a nearly even combatant/civilian casualty ratio. Last Friday Israel showered west Beirut with leaflets naming 90 Hizbullah fighters it claims to have killed. Earlier in the same week Hizbullah named its dead in a list running to 53 martyrs. Several more were acknowledged to have died over the weekend. Against a UN figure of 1,020 Lebanese killed up that translates into a combatant/civilian deaths ratio of anywhere between 1:11 and 1:19.
Taking a median figure it means that Israel has killed nearly 15 times more civilians to every combatant than Hizbullah. Even if the figures are inaccurate owing to Hizbullah under-reporting of its own casualties, together with the evidence of civilian casualties and damage gathered by human rights activists, they point to a level of force far beyond any reasonable definition of proportionate.
This has been confirmed by the Arab media and reporters like Jonathan Cook who have resisted the hegemonic western narrative which sees Hizbullah as the indiscriminating protagonist, randomly raining down rockets on Israeli cities, while Israeli troops invariably execute precision strikes on rigorously selected military targets. ...
Excite News - Hezbollah Shoots Down Israeli Helicopter: "Aug 12, 11:59 PM (ET) | By GAVIN RABINOWITZ
JERUSALEM (AP) - Nineteen Israeli soldiers were killed Saturday during an expanded offensive in Lebanon, the army said, making it the highest one-day toll for the Jewish state since the war against Hezbollah erupted.
The deaths, which occurred in several battles throughout the day, brought to more than 100 the number of Israeli troops killed so far.
In its statement Sunday, the military also said that a five member crew of a downed helicopter was missing and feared dead.
The soldiers were killed in battles as helicopters landed commandos near the Litani River and columns of armor and infantry pushed north to meet them.
Several soldiers died they were hit by anti-tank missiles and others in fierce gunbattles with the guerillas. Two were killed when a tank accidentally ran over them, the army said, adding that more than 50 Hezbollah fighters were killed. Israel Radio reported that some 100 soldiers were injured in the clashes.
The transport helicopter was shot down by Hezbollah guerillas. Only the crew were on board at the time, the army said. ...
Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "13 August 2006 07:40 | Huge Israeli offensive launched | By Donald Macintyre in Metulla | Published: 13 August 2006"
Despite UN agreement on ceasefire, 30,000 troops are now operating inside Lebanon
Israel was in the midst of an expanded air and ground military campaign inside Lebanon yesterday despite international agreement on a UN resolution calling for an "immediate" halt to a month of hostilities by both sides.
In the largest operation of its kind since the Yom Kippur war in 1973, the Israelis used up to 50 helicopters to land hundreds of troops deep inside southern Lebanon before dawn as part of the intensified ground offensive ordered by the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, hours before Friday's UN vote. ...
Excite News - Hezbollah Fires 250 Rockets Into Israel: "Aug 13, 3:22 PM (ET) | By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI
ERUSALEM (AP) - Hezbollah fired more than 250 rockets into Israel on Sunday, the fiercest attack against northern Israel since the fighting began more than a month ago, the Israeli army reported. One Israeli man was killed.
After a stormy debate Sunday, Israel's Cabinet approved a Mideast cease-fire, agreeing to silence the army's guns in less than 24 hours. The Israeli military and Hezbollah both embarked on a last-minute barrage, trying to inflict as much damage as possible before the cease-fire began.
Israeli warplanes ranged across south Lebanon, rocketing south Beirut and other areas with 23 missiles that killed at least 15 people.
The 24-0 Israeli Cabinet vote, with one abstention, came a day after the Lebanese government approved the agreement and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his grudging consent. The truce was to take effect Monday morning.
Excite News: "Israel pursues Lebanon assault | Aug 12, 10:27 AM (ET) | By Tom Perry
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Israeli army pushed deeper into Lebanon and air strikes killed up to 20 people on Saturday, despite a U.N. Security Council demand for a "full cessation of hostilities" in the month-old war with Hizbollah guerrillas.
Israeli helicopters airlifted hundreds of troops into south Lebanon as part of an expanding ground offensive launched despite Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that he backed the U.N. vote. Olmert was expected to ask his cabinet to approve the resolution on Sunday.
Israel's top general said the attack would go on until it was clear how any U.N.-backed ceasefire would take effect. ...
PNN English - Israeli settlers in the West Bank shoot and kill Palestinian vegetable merchant and injure his son: " Monday, 07 August 2006
During Monday’s early dawn hours Israeli settlers opened fire on a man and his son south of Nablus in the West Bank.
Palestinian security sources report that the Qalqilia area Hableh Village residents were passing through Dooma Village south of Nablus. Israeli settlers opened fire on 48 year old Husein Mardawi and his 19 year old son Dean. The settlers killed the father and injured his son.
As all Israeli settlements in the West Bank exist in direct contravention to international law, the crime is even more egregious.
Palestinian medical sources at Nablus’ Rafidiya Hospital report that the elder Mardawi received a bullet directly in the heart. Settlers are often heavily armed, just as are the soldiers in and around settlements. Mardawi’s teenaged son is now in Rafidiya with moderate injuries, according to hospital sources. ...
Excite News: "Israel attacks convoy fleeing south Lebanon | Aug 11, 6:18 PM (ET)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft fired rockets at a convoy of hundreds of cars carrying people fleeing south Lebanon on Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 36, witnesses and medical sources said.
They said the convoy that had left the Israeli-occupied town of Marjayoun earlier in the day was targeted by at least one drone near the wine-making village of Kefraya in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
"The night sky suddenly lit and we heard an explosion toward the leading cars of the convoy. I first thought it was a blown tire," said Reuters reporter Karamallah Daher, who was in the convoy.
"Cars sped in every direction and some crashed into ditches near the road," said Daher, who counted five rockets.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Palestinian deaths rise amid fear of worse to come: "Nidal al-Mughrabi/Reuters | Friday August 11, 2006 | The Guardian
Last month was the deadliest in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, a Palestinian research group said yesterday, as Israel's six-week offensive against militants in the territory led to a surge in killings.
The Palestinian Monitoring Group said 151 people were killed in the strip in July, [US equivalent -- 30,000 in one month] the highest total since October 2004, when 166 people died. The majority of those killed were civilians.
'The spiralling civilian casualties caused by Israeli actions throughout the region serve to strengthen extremists, weaken peace advocates and exacerbate the conflict,' said the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, commenting on the findings."
From late June, when Israel launched its offensive, until August 8, at least 170 Palestinians were killed, of whom 138 were civilians and a quarter children, the monitoring group said. Other reports have put the death toll at 200.
When the offensive was launched, Israeli warplanes bombed and partly destroyed Gaza's only power plant and also hit several bridges. The flow of fuel, food and other essential supplies was also repeatedly interrupted. The United Nations says the densely populated territory is now facing some of the worst humanitarian conditions in years.
In a report this week the UN said more than 70% of the 1.4 million population was reliant on emergency assistance to meet food needs and the price of essential goods, such as flour and sugar, had risen by between 15% and 33% this year. Waste treatment in the northern strip has reached a "critical point", threatening to flood populated areas with sewage and spread infection. ... [Sophisticated ethnic cleansing???]
Iran to supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missiles - Yahoo! News: "Fri Aug 4, 11:28 AM ET | LONDON (AFP) -
Iran will supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missile systems in the coming months, boosting the guerrillas' defences against Israeli aircraft, according to a report by specialist magazine Jane's Defence Weekly, citing unnamed Western diplomatic sources.
...
"Iranian authorities conveyed a message to the Hezbollah leadership that their forces would continue to receive a steady supply of weapons systems,"it added.
"The details coming from the meeting reveal that they are about ensuring a constant supply of weapons to support Islamic Resistance operations against Israel," said Robin Hughes, the magazine's Middle East Editor.
"We are told the latest meeting was attended by senior representatives of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Qods force which is responsible for training and logistic support for Iranian-backed insurgent groups."
According to Jane's Defence Weekly, Iranian authorities have supplied the militia with Iranian-made Noor radar-guided anti-ship cruise missiles and Chinese QW-1 (Vanguard) shoulder-launched SAMs.
Russian-made SAMs will reportedly be supplied at a later date. ...
Lebanon pleads for ceasefire as Israeli blitz kills 69 - Yahoo! News: "by Stuart Williams Mon Aug 7, 7:43 PM ET
BEIRUT (AFP) - Prime Minister Fuad Siniora made a tearful plea for an end to the four-week conflict in Lebanon as 69 people were killed in a new blitz of air raids and Israel warned of no limit to its offensive.
...
There was no end to the offensive in sight, as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed "no limits" had been imposed on the army.
"The majority of the country supports the operation and is ready to support the price," Olmert's office quoted him as saying during a visit to military headquarters in the north.
"I give you all the means that you need and all of my support. We will not stop," he said. ...
..
The Israeli army said three soldiers were killed in fighting with Hezbollah around the border town of Bint Jbeil -- the scene of the fiercest ground combat of the conflict, bringing to 61 the number of military personnel killed.
Five civilians were injured when a new volley of rockets landed in northern Israel. ...
Lebanese PM rejects U.N. cease-fire plan - Yahoo! News: "By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese prime minister rejected a U.N. cease-fire plan backed by President Bush, demanding on Monday that Israel immediately pull out from southern Lebanon even before a peacekeeping force arrives to act as a buffer between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.
Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's stand, delivered in a tearful speech to Arab foreign ministers, came on a day in which 49 Lebanese were killed — one of the deadliest days for Lebanese in nearly four weeks of fighting.
His Cabinet, which includes two Hezbollah ministers, voted unanimously to send 15,000 troops to stand between Israel and Hezbollah should a cease-fire take hold and Israeli forces withdraw south of the border. The move was an attempt to show that Lebanon has the will and ability to assert control over its south, which is run by Hezbollah, the powerful Shiite Muslim militia backed by Syria and Iran.
...
At least 52 people died Monday on both sides [Propaganda alert ... watch the following space ...] . Hezbollah fired 160 rockets, wounding five Israelis, police and rescue services said. Three Israeli soldiers were killed in combat in south Lebanon, the first in an exchange of fire with Hezbollah fighters and the two others by an anti-tank missile, the Israeli army said. ...
"Israeli attacks kill 55 Lebanese | Mon Aug 7, 2006 4:40 PM ET | By Andrew Marshall
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli attacks killed at least 55 people in Lebanon on Monday and a U.N. Security Council vote on a resolution to end the 27-day-old conflict was delayed after Arab nations objected to the draft.
An Israeli strike on a crowded area in Shi'ite-dominated south Beirut destroyed a building and killed at least 15 people, rescue workers said.
At least 30 were wounded. Rescuers dug through the rubble with a bulldozer and with their hands as fire engines doused burning ruins and the charred shells of cars.
Israeli air raids killed at least 40 people in southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley.
The Israeli army said three of its soldiers were killed in battles with guerrillas in southern Lebanon.
With diplomatic efforts to end the conflict stalled, Israel said it may expand its ground offensive. The Israeli army told residents of south Lebanon that any vehicles seen moving after 10 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Monday could be targeted.
'Anyone who does travel is taking a high risk. There is no end period,' an army source said. 'This will allow us to track anyone potentially trying to launch rockets.'" ...
British volunteers answer army's call - Britain - Times Online: "August 07, 2006 | By Stephen Farrell
AT FIRST sight Ben and his mates could be at a wedding party on the lawns of an hotel in his native Yorkshire.
Except that this hotel is a short drive from the Israel-Lebanon border and, despite his Leeds accent, Ben is an Israeli soldier. He is also cradling an Israeli-army issue Colt AR15 semi-automatic rifle stamped “Property of US Govt”.
Ben, 26, who arrived in Israel last year, is one of thousands of those serving in the Israeli military either as newly arrived citizens or on army programmes for Zionists who want to defend Israel while deciding whether to emigrate.
Earlier in the day he was ducking Hezbollah mortars in the Lebanese village of Adessa, just across the border. Now he sits chatting in two languages about two lives — as a would-be medical student in Britain and as an Israeli soldier known among his colleagues for his stamina and ability to carry a heavy machinegun over long distances.
“My father is very supportive,” he tells The Times. “My mum is a bit anxious.”"
Excite News: "Lebanon PM says 40 killed in Israeli strike | Aug 7, 8:06 AM (ET)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Houla killed more than 40 people on Monday, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said.
'An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs,' Siniora told an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut."
Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "11 Israeli reservists killed in Hezbollah stike | By Associated Press | Published: 06 August 2006
Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets at towns across northern Israel on Sunday killing 11 reserve soldiers, according to reports.
The raid is the worst rocket attack on Israel since the violence began on July 12, rescue services said. Reports coming out of Israel indicate that those killed in the raid were reserve soldiers.
"It was a direct hit on a crowd of people," Dan Ronen, the chief of the northern police command, told Army Radio. One of the rockets hit the northern town of Kfar Giladi, causing many of the injuries and deaths, rescue officials said. Army Radio said a synagogue was also hit. Convoys of police and rescue vehicles raced to the town. "This was the most difficult thing I could have imagined in my career. There are nine bodies here covered in blankets, around us cars are going up in flames," Army Radio reporter Hadas Shteif reported. ...
The News - International: " 40 Lebanese dead in Israeli strikes"
BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon: Israel blasted at Hizbollah on Wednesday with 8,000 soldiers on the ground, heavy bombing and a daring commando raid, but the guerrilla group remained resilient — sending its biggest and deepest volley of rocket attacks ever into Israel. ...
Hizbollah kills 12 in deadliest day for Israel�|�News One�|�Reuters.com: "Thu Aug 3, 2006 4:53pm ET138 | By Andrew Marshall
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas killed eight people in a rocket barrage on Israel and four Israeli soldiers in clashes in Lebanon on Thursday, the deadliest day of the war for Israel in 23 days of fighting. ...
Hizbollah rockets kill 8 in Israel�|�Top News�|�Reuters.com: "
...
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the war had killed 900 people in Lebanon and wounded 3,000, with a third of the casualties children under 12. He said a million Lebanese, a quarter of the population, had been displaced and infrastructure devastated. The Reuters tally of Lebanon deaths is at least 683."
USATODAY.com - 8 Palestinians killed as Israeli tanks and bulldozers enter southern Gaza: "
AZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Dozens of Israeli tanks pushed deep into the Gaza Strip and aircraft fired missiles at Palestinian militants Thursday, killing eight people in heavy fighting that mirrored the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
Palestinian officials said an 8-year-old boy was among the dead.
The United Nations said Thursday it worried "the tragedy in Gaza is being forgotten" because of the fighting in Lebanon. It called on both Israel and the Palestinian militants to recognize their obligations to protect civilians during hostilities, but singled out Israel for criticism. ...
Independent Online Edition > Middle East: "Hizbollah responds to Israeli raid with barrage of rockets | By Donald Macintyre in Metulla, northern Lebanon | Published: 03 August 2006
Hizbollah fired more rockets yesterday than at any time in the 22-day war as Israel claimed its raid on an empty Baalbek hospital believed to hold Hizbollah fighters had demonstrated its ground forces could "operate in all parts of Lebanon if needed".
The Israel Defence Forces said its deepest raid into Lebanon in this conflict was by a commando unit, landed overnight by helicopters. Air strikes in the area of the city during the raid were said by Lebanese officials to have left 19 dead, including four children.
Despite Hizbollah claims that those killed and captured in the raid were mainly civilians, the Israel chief of staff, Dan Halutz, said that his forces had killed at least 10 "Hizbollah terrorists", and five captured men were also Hizbollah members. Lebanese security officials said the men were "low-level" operatives in the guerrilla organisation. ...
Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk: "Robert Fisk: Entire Lebanese family killed in Israeli attack on hospital | Published: 03 August 2006"
An attack on a hospital, the killing of an entire Lebanese family, the seizure of five men in Baalbek and a new civilian death toll - 468 men, women and children - marked the 22nd day of Israel's latest war on Lebanon.
The Israelis claimed that helicopter-borne soldiers had seized senior Hizbollah leaders although one of them turned out to be a local Baalbek grocer. In a village near the city, Israeli air strikes killed the local mayor's son and brother and five children in their family.
The battle for Lebanon was fast moving out of control last night. Lebanese troops abandoned many of their checkpoints and European diplomats were warning their colleagues that militiamen were taking over the positions. Up to 8,000 Israeli troops were reported to have crossed the border by last night in what was publicised as a military advance towards the Litani river. But far more soldiers would be needed to secure so large an area of southern Lebanon. ...
Excite News - Hezbollah Rocket Hits West Bank: "Aug 2, 6:45 AM (ET)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Hezbollah guerrillas fired more than 300 rockets from Lebanese border towns into northern Israel on Wednesday, Lebanese security officials said, including one that hit the West Bank for the first time.
Israel medics said that rocket hit near the town of Beit Shean, about 42 miles from the border, which makes it the deepest rocket strike into Israel so far. Witnesses said it struck between the West Bank villages of Fakua and Jalboun, causing no injuries.
...
Israeli police and rescue services said at least 84 rockets were fired by Hezbollah at towns across northern Israel. The Israeli reports said at least seven people were wounded.
...
Plumes of black smoke rose from the hills above Kfar Kila and the nearby village of Adeisse, where the thud of Israeli artillery was constant. Shells were falling about once every two minutes. [720/day.]
Another Israeli Myth Exposed: There Were No Hezbollah Rockets In Qana: "Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 1 2006
Meanwhile, northern Israeli residents say they have more chance of winning the lottery than getting hit by a Katyusha missile
There were no Hezbollah rockets and no Hezbollah militants in the village of Qana that was leveled by the Israelis on Sunday night, according to village residents and Red Cross workers stationed in the area. Another apologist fabrication to justify Israeli atrocities has been exposed as a total fraud.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert claimed Sunday Hezbollah were, 'hiding places for rockets inside the village and the village itself is a safe haven for those who launch rockets.'
Israeli media mouthpieces and drooling Neo-Cons have repeatedly tried to portray Israel's rampant war crimes as a right to self-defense, even in light of mounting atrocities and the deliberate targeting of aid workers, ambulances, UN observers, and women and children who slept in their beds and never woke up.
'There were no Hezbollah rockets fired from Qana - this was the justification given by the Israelis for bombing the shelter and again carrying out a massive bombardment all that night long and well into the next day of that entire village,' Dahr Jamail told the Alex Jones Show." ...
Daily Kos: IDF: "No Rockets In Qana": "by Mom Calls Me Slick | Tue Aug 01, 2006 at 06:03:36 AM PDT
The IDF now says 'there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike,' according to an article in Ha'aretz today. In my opinion, this is clearly a case of collective punishment for the local populations' support of Hezbollah. Israel is flattening entire villages in their march to the Litani River and will continue to do so when the bombing resumes Wednesday. Peretz took the gloves off after the Rome conference by changing the ROE to disregard the presence of civilians in any attacks on Hezbollah. ...
