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"Aren't People Seeing This?" -- Dahr Jamail

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/lebanon/00042...

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Astoundingly, the assistant director of the Beirut Government University
Hospital, Bilal Masri, told me today that there was a 30% casualty rate
thus far-meaning that of all the people struck by bombs, 30% of them are
killed.

"This is a higher percentage than we had during the civil war," the
haggard assistant director told me while patients shuffled through the
lobby of the busy hospital, one of the largest in Beirut, "And 55% of
the casualties are children under 15 years of age."

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"The Israelis are bombing everything that moves, along with cutting so
many bridges and roads, so people have been unable or too scared to come
back to work," he said, "So those of us who have stayed are eating,
sleeping and working here 24 hours a day. I myself have barely slept in
the last 13 days."

It was still sinking in that the casualty rate was so incredibly high,
so I asked him how that could be.

"The Israelis are using new kinds of bombs, and these bombs can
penetrate bomb shelters," he explained sternly, "They are bombing the
refugees in the bomb shelters!"