Israeli bombardment kills 40 civilians

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060804/ts_nm/mideast1_dc_51

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli bombardment killed at least 40 civilians in Lebanon on Friday and Hizbollah launched its longest-range rocket attack of the war as world powers tried to overcome their differences on how to end the fighting.

One Israeli air strike hit a farm near Qaa, close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley where workers, mostly Syrian Kurds, were loading plums and peaches onto trucks, local officials said. They said 33 people were killed and 20 wounded.

Television footage showed bodies of what appeared to be farm workers lined up near the ruins of a small structure in fruit groves. Strewn nearby were fruit baskets.

"I was picking peaches when three bombs hit. Others were having lunch and they were torn to pieces," said Mohammad Rashed, one of the wounded. Syria's official news agency said 17 of the dead were Syrian workers, five of them women.

"The air force spotted a truck that was suspected to have been loaded with weapons cross from Syria into Lebanon on a route that is routinely used to transport weapons," said an Israeli army spokesman. "The truck entered into a building and remained inside for an hour, then left and returned to Syria."

He said that when the truck left, the building was attacked.



Syrian kurd farm workers search the rubble after an Israeli air raid on a farm in northeastern Lebanon, August 4, 2006. The raid on Qaa in the Bekaa Valley killed 33 and wounded 20. Israel struck four bridges linking Beirut to the north of the country earlier during the day. (Mohammed Solh/Reuters)

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Shoot first - ask questions later. That's the American way.

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I see the Israelis got it down pat.

(sigh)

[leftchick]

6. yes they do

they learned from the original war criminals.

[joemurphy]

2. How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Middle East.

Keep this up and the morality of Israel's bombing and Hezbollah's rockets begin to look pretty much the same.

[Erika]

3. There is no excuse for this. n/t

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. recommended

[JackNewtown]

5. We are doing severe damage to ourselves in the ME by sponsoring this nt

[malaise]

7. Well they're throwing more

leaflets, this time in Sidon, so more innocent Lebanese will die today. Of course the Defense Minister said any residents who stay are Hizbollah supporters.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200608051859.htm

Who will stop these barbarians? EfuggingNOUGH!

[leftchick]

8. Juan Cole writes...

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The Daily Star reports:
"Israeli warplanes destroyed five bridges along the main North-South coastal highway Friday, killing five people, wounding 19 others and completely isolating the capital from the North of the country.. . .The strikes destroyed the only remaining land outlet via Syria after the bombardment of other border crossing points."


Intrepid Israeli fighter jet pilots tracked down sinister terrorist cucumbers and other vicious vegetables being loaded onto a refrigerated truck by Syrian seasonal laboerers. Unfortunatedly the wicked terrorist cucumbers were hiding themselves amidst civilian workers, and it was necessary to kill 26 of the latter to end the threat of pickling. Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman castigated the cucumbers as "animals." Alan Dershowitz pointed out that vegetables cannot be considered civilians.

http://www.juancole.com/

:(

[Toots]

9. Israel jabs a thumb into the eye of Syria

Says na na na what ya gunna do about it. Soon the world will learn Israel is not all powerful...