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"The Lebanon" (GRAPHIC)

Edited on Sat Jul-15-06 08:55 AM by Hissyspit

THE HUMAN LEAGUE "The Lebanon" (1984)

She is awakened by the screams

An Israeli girl is being comforted by a medic after her father was wounded by a Katyusha-style rocket fired from neighboring southern Lebanon which fell in the northern Israeli city of Safed. Israel bombed the home of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on the third day of relentless attacks on Lebanon that have killed more than 60 people and ignited fears of all-out war in the region.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Of rockets flying from nearby

Missiles fired from Israeli jets hit the Zahrani bridge in south Lebanon July 14, 2006. (Ali Hashisho - LEBANON/Reuters)

And scared she clings onto her dreams

A child suffering from shock was rushed to the hospital in Nahariya, after five rockets struck northern Israel Thursday. Israeli warships and aircraft were clamping down on Lebanon's air, sea and land infrastructure on Friday, three days after Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.
(Photo: Rina Castelnuovo / The New York Times)

To beat the fear that she might die

Medics inspect an Iraqi man, Haidar Al Kazim, who was killed near a gasoline station that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Saida, south Lebanon, July 15, 2006. Israeli aircraft pounded areas in south, east and northern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Hizbollah's chief declared an open war against the Jewish state following the bombardment of his stronghold in Beirut. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)

And who will have won

Injured Israeli toddlers are taken in an ambulance by medics in Meron village after a Katyusha-style rocket fired from southern Lebanon fell on a house. Israel bombed the home of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in what the Israeli media said was an assassination attempt on the third day of relentless attacks on Lebanon.(AFP/Menahem Kahana)

When the soldiers have gone

An Israeli army 155 mm mobile artillery piece fires into southern Lebanon from a position on the frontier in Zaura, July 14, 2006. (Yonathan Weitzman/Reuters)

From the Lebanon

View of a destroyed bridge over a damaged highway after it was struck by an Israeli warplane missile near the southern village of Adousiyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, July 15, 2006. Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Lebanon early Saturday, targeting bridges, fuel storage tanks and gas stations in the east and south, security officials said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Lebanon

Bodies in plastic bags of victims of the last two days of the Israeli forces' offensive, can be seen inside a refrigirator-truck that was coverted into a makeshift morgue, outside the Hakoumi hospital in Bass Palestinian refugee camp, Friday July 14, 2006. Hospital officials say they had received bodies of 33 people in these two days, as Israel continues its operations on Lebanon for a second day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

And who will have won

An Israeli father grieves over the covered body of his son after a Katyusha-style rocket attack in the northern Israeli village of Meiron July 14, 2006. An Israeli woman and a child were killed on Friday when a rocket fired from Lebanon slammed into the house in northern Israel, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)

When the soldiers have gone

Smoke billows into the sky after an Israeli warplane missile struck a target in the southern village of Adousiyeh, south Lebanon, Saturday July 15, 2006. Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Lebanon early Saturday, targeting bridges, fuel storage tanks and gas stations in the east and south, security officials said. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

From the Lebanon

A Lebanese civil defense personnel receives medical treatment at a hospital in the southern port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, Friday, July 14, 2006, after his legs were amputated following injuries while he was trying to rescue victims following an Israeli raid in the Zahrani region. Israel tightened its seal on Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world and bringing its offensive to the capital for the first time Friday in order to punish Hezbollah - and with it, the country - for the capture of two Israeli soldiers. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)

The Lebanon

A girl sits in a car with her family as they flee the Israeli attacks on south Lebanon in Damour July 15,2006. Israeli aircraft pounded areas in south, east and northern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Hizbollah's chief declared an open war against the Jewish state following the bombardment of his stronghold in Beirut. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON)

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