Sunday, July 30, 2006

52 killed in Israel strike on Qana

From Yahoo News:
QANA, Lebanon (AFP) - Fifty-two people have killed, more than half of them children, in an Israeli air blitz on the Lebanese village of Qana, triggering outrage around the world and warnings of retribution for Israel's "war crime."

The raid on Qana, which left homes in ruins and villagers trapped under the rubble, was the deadliest single attack since Israel launched its devastating war on the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah 19 days ago.

In Qana -- scene of another deadly bombardment 10 years ago -- rescue workers with only their bare hands clawed through rubble of flattened homes and an underground shelter to find survivors while mothers hugged their dead children in a final hopeless embrace.

Police put the death toll at at least 52 including 30 children.

"The bombing was so intense that no-one could move," said a distraught Ibrahim Shalhoub, 26. "I succeeded in getting out and everything collapsed. I have several members of the family inside and I do not think that there will be any other survivors."

Israel has given up any moral high ground they had with their heavy handedness and cavalier attitude towards all those innocent Lebanese women and children who have been killed. What outrages me is that those are american made bombs killing all those civilians. In the end Israel is only hurting itself. They're creating more terrorists as well as causing people to rethink their blanket support of Israel. They're also creating more hatred towards the US because of our supplying them with weapons and our President's support for Israels bombardment of Lebanon. If only Clinton were President we would have had a cease fire by now. This is like Hurricane Katrina all over again with Bush sitting on his hands while people are dying.