Lebanese hospital struggles with wounded

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060724/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_suffering

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Stretched out on a bed at Najem Hospital, Zainab squeezed shut her brown eyes as memories of the attack flooded back, some of her words muffled as she fought sobs.

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"I don't want to remember, but I can't help it. What I remember most is the sound, the sound of the planes and I was scared because I thought there were so many," she said. "I fell asleep last night, but all I could hear in my sleep were planes."

Zainab's aunt was in the next bed. Her mother, Usra Jawad, and 4-year-old brother, Mohammed, were across the hall. Mohammed's eyes fluttered as he slipped in and out of consciousness; his leg was in a cast to his hip. His mother's leg was in traction, with steel pins in several places.

The week before, Usra Jawad's three sisters visited her village to see the new family home. When the bombing started, the four sisters fled in a car with the two children, hoping to reach their parents home north of Tyre.

But rockets hit their car. Two of the sisters, both teachers, were killed.



This image taken from video made by Lebanese Red Cross workers Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Qana, south Lebanon, and made available to AP Television, shows the roof of a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in what they say was an Israeli airstrike. The Red Cross workers who provided AP Television News with the video said that nine ambulance workers were wounded in the explosion as they tried to ferry injured people from the town of Qana, 20 kilometers (about 12 and a half miles) from Tyre, to hospital. AP Television cannot independently verify whether the Red Cross workers were hit by an Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo)

[liberalhistorian]

1. God Almighty. And THIS is what

our country is so enthusiastically supporting? Those of you who STILL defend this bullshit, PLEASE explain to me how these civilians were all just Hezbollah plants so it's all a part of a necessary strategy. Please explain to me why the lives of two captured Israeli soldiers is worth all of this unbelievable destruction, death, suffering, etc., etc. And then maybe you can also explain why my tax dollars are being used for this shit, because without out money, Israel would be nothing.

[babylonsister]

2. Nom for outrage. I'd like to hear this justified; there is none. nt

[brer cat]

3. There is NOTHING, NOTHING done to ANYONE that

can "justify" this. We have to stop killing the children, above all, and the innocent civilians caught up in this political war.

[LostinVA]

4. Oh read some other threads -- it's being justified

By some great "Progressives" on DU.

[babylonsister]

5. I notice none are 'chirping' up in this thread. But I've been

reading and know what you mean.

[LostinVA]

6. I noticed the lack of crickets, too

They'll probably start up after I go to bed in a few minutes...

[AlamoDemoc]

7. I think many years of programmed viewing that Arabs are useless..

...terrorists and our preached Judea-Christian family value here in America has influenced our thinking to be neutral on this conflict. I am hopeful that many of us are waking up to this misinformation, and are now witnessing what Israel is doing in the Middle East.