Israeli warplanes strike in eastern Lebanon

[cal04]

Israeli warplanes launched raids on eastern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese security sources said, hours after the Jewish state suspended aerial bombardment of south Lebanon for 48 hours.

The sources said at least two air strikes hit roads near the border with Syria in the early hours.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31793962.htm

Israel has agreed to a 48-hour halt in aerial activity over southern Lebanon, a U.S. official said Sunday amid widespread outrage over an Israeli air strike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.

But within hours, there were reports that Israeli warplanes had launched new raids on eastern Lebanon on Monday. Lebanese security sources said at least two air strikes hit roads near the border with Syria in the early hours.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14100258/

[uppityperson]

1. They did say the South, and reserved the right to bomb if they thought

someone in the south was getting prepared to bomb them later. 24 hours for people in the south to leave, this is being worked on. Bomb the toad to Syria. Onward. fuck

[eleny]

2. Oh for chrissakes

[daleo]

3. So, should the people in the south flee to the east?

I guess not now.
Beirut's got hammered, so I guess that's out.
It looks like everyone will have to go to the far north, or swim around in the Mediterranean.

Some choices.

[Lindacooks]

4. But they can't swim in the ocean, because of the huge oil spills.

Man, if this isn't a war crime, I don't know what is.

[uppityperson]

6. Are the roads north passable?

looks like main NS road goes by the area that they are still bombing. So, southerners can leave, maybe, if they can find a way, but once they leave the south they can get bombed, and the sea is an oil slick and the roads are cratered. So, ceasefire. bah

[IndianaGreen]

5. Bolton threatened a veto if the UN passed any ceasefire resolution

and the UN fears it is going down the same path of irrelevancy as the League of Nations.

We as Americans are allowing our government to destroy the framework of international law that was established at the end of World War II. We should be very concerned and worried about the consequences of allowing aggression to go unpunished.

[daleo]

7. So true

The neo-cons hate the U.N., or any other institution that doesn't represent naked power and might makes right. The U.N. may not be perfect, but it is a lot better than nothing.

[rodeodance]

9. i called my congresscritter and left a message

[chiffon]

8. Wow...just wow! Pathetic.

[cal04]

10. Israel denies breaking Lebanon bombing suspension

Israel said on Monday it launched air strikes in eastern Lebanon overnight but that the raids occurred before the start of a 48-hour suspension of aerial bombardments in the south.

Earlier, Lebanese security sources said Israel had launched attacks after the suspension went into effect and that at least two air strikes hit roads near the Lebanese border with Syria in the early hours of Monday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31105813.htm

[uppityperson]

11. It Hadn't Started Yet ploy, eh?

[IndianaGreen]

12. Are we talking Eastern Time or Mountain Time?

I am sorry, but right now Israel has the same credibility as our own Pentagon.

David has become Goliath, and not a very nice one at that!

[leesa]

13. No, no, no. Hezbollah turned the clocks behind and tricked them.

It's Hezbollah's fault!

[IndianaGreen]

14. Robert Fisk: 'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'

'How can we stand by and allow this to go on?'

By Robert Fisk

07/31/06 "The Independent" -- -- They wrote the names of the dead children on their plastic shrouds. "Mehdi Hashem, aged seven - Qana," was written in felt pen on the bag in which the little boy's body lay. "Hussein al-Mohamed, aged 12 - Qana',' "Abbas al-Shalhoub, aged one - Qana.'' And when the Lebanese soldier went to pick up Abbas's little body, it bounced on his shoulder as the boy might have done on his father's shoulder on Saturday. In all, there were 56 corpses brought to the Tyre government hospital and other surgeries, and 34 of them were children. When they ran out of plastic bags, they wrapped the small corpses in carpets. Their hair was matted with dust, most had blood running from their noses.

You must have a heart of stone not to feel the outrage that those of us watching this experienced yesterday. This slaughter was an obscenity, an atrocity - yes, if the Israeli air force truly bombs with the "pinpoint accuracy'' it claims, this was also a war crime. Israel claimed that missiles had been fired by Hizbollah gunmen from the south Lebanese town of Qana - as if that justified this massacre. Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, talked about "Muslim terror" threatening "western civilisation" - as if the Hizbollah had killed all these poor people.

And in Qana, of all places. For only 10 years ago, this was the scene of another Israeli massacre, the slaughter of 106 Lebanese refugees by an Israeli artillery battery as they sheltered in a UN base in the town. More than half of those 106 were children. Israel later said it had no live-time pilotless photo-reconnaissance aircraft over the scene of that killing - a statement that turned out to be untrue when The Independent discovered videotape showing just such an aircraft over the burning camp. It is as if Qana - whose inhabitants claim that this was the village in which Jesus turned water into wine - has been damned by the world, doomed forever to receive tragedy.

And there was no doubt of the missile which killed all those children yesterday. It came from the United States, and upon a fragment of it was written: "For use on MK-84 Guided Bomb BSU-37-B". No doubt the manufacturers can call it "combat-proven" because it destroyed the entire three-storey house in which the Shalhoub and Hashim families lived. They had taken refuge in the basement from an enormous Israeli bombardment, and that is where most of them died.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14287.htm

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. Fat lot of good this will do the lame fucks. For every one they kill

10 more rise up. They have bought themselves endless grief & the a sense that Israel isn't invincible. Good luck from now on.

[AzDar]

16. Goddamn...you know for the last 5 miserable years, I thought

George W. Bush was most likely a tool hand-picked by various corporations and nutjob preachers to advance their fucked-up agendas as long as they could continue to steal elections and prop the dumb little loser up.
With all of the havoc currently being wrought in the Middle East, either by U.S. action ( Iraq), or inaction (Lebanon),I'm beginning to think that insane waste-of-skin is actually trying to bring on WWIII.
"Bring it on", indeed, Chimp.

[MrPrax]

17. A ceasefire that kills?

Israel launches airstrike near Tyre, kills soldier

Beirut/Jerusalem - Israel suspended its massive aerial bombardment of Lebanon for 48 hours starting early Monday, scrambling aircraft only against 'immediate threats,' a day after a strike on a house killed at least 56 civilians, most of them women and children.

But hours after the halt took effect at 2 a.m. (2300 GMT Sunday), Israeli jets rocketed a vehicle north of the port city of Tyre, killing a Lebanese soldier and wounding three others, Lebanese security officials said.

The Israeli army said the intended target had been a senior Hezbollah official responsible for 'directing' the launching of rockets at Israel, who was mistakenly believed to have been in the vehicle.

It expressed 'regret' for the incident. The Hezbollah official who was the intended target posed a 'real and immediate' threat because he was involved in militant activity which endangered Israel's citizens, the army said.

M&C

But there are people who will still believe the Israeli can do no wrong and say no lies...just like the terrorists they emulate