Posted on 08/08/2006 12:11:34 PM PDT by SmithL
GHAZIYEH, Lebanon -- Mourners in a funeral procession for Israeli airstrike victims scattered in panic Tuesday as warplanes again unleashed missiles that hit buildings and killed 13 people, witnesses and officials said.
The first missile struck a building about five minutes after the march by about 1,500 people had passed by, killing one person and wounding five.
The blast was close enough to send mourners screaming, "Allahu akbar!" or "God is great!" Some broke away from the procession, while others continued on.
They were burying some of the 15 people killed in Ghaziyeh on Monday, when Israeli airstrikes flattened three buildings in the Shiite town southeast of the port city of Sidon.
About 30 minutes after Tuesday's first airstrike, Israeli warplanes staged four more bombing runs, destroying two buildings, said Mayor Mohammed Ghaddar.
Twelve more people were killed and 18 wounded in those strikes, according to tally from three area hospitals.
Witnesses said one of the destroyed houses belonged to Sheik Mustafa Khalifeh, a cleric linked to Hezbollah, but it was unclear if he was among the casualties. Most Hezbollah officials have left their homes and offices since the offensive began nearly a month ago.
Ghaziyeh has been targeted several times, but the attacks Monday and Tuesday were the heaviest. The town was overflowing with displaced people, who have swelled its population to 23,000.
Meanwhile, diplomats at the United Nations struggled to keep a peace plan from collapsing over Arab demands for an immediate Israeli withdrawal. And military planners in Jerusalem said they will push even deeper into Lebanon to target rocket sites.
Israel declared a no-drive zone in the entire region south of Lebanon's Litani River — 20 miles from the border — warning residents that any vehicle on the roads would be destroyed
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Pictures to come soon, I'm sure.
al-Reuters is cooking some, now.
The Israelis should demand their money back. Those precision weapons seem to hit nothing but peaceful civilians, schools, hospitals and day-care centers.
Sounds like there are going to be more mourners.
No doubt
Israel could probably get away with ANYTHING now, since no one will believe anything reported by AP or Reuters.
Excellent! Give Hizbollah no place to run and no place to hide.
LOL
What were they nearly mourning?
Sounds like rush hour on the Long Island Expressway.
Who's got the pic of Nelson saying "Ha-Ha"??? :)
Always though we should follow up killing terrorists, esp. terrorist leaders, by napalming their funerals to get their families and supporters.
Just like they were nearly dead.
Huh?
Its a war zone. They've been warned to get out.
Israel needs to keep its eye on the ball. Don't let anything distract her. The killing will stop when Hezbollah is dismantled. The killing is guaranteed to continue while Hezbollah walks this earth. Any cease-fire that leaves Hezbollah alive and armed is a cease-fire that is not even a cease-fire, just a prelude to more killing and more killing yet.
If concern for civilians who have decided to stay in the war zone causes Israel to stop short of her military purpose, she is letting concern for some deaths guarantee more deaths. The most humane way to do this is to ignore the distractions and go at a steady speed forward until the killers have fled or died.
1 - the folks killed yesterday are being counted again as dead, or
2 - they're having another inflated death toll for AP to report, to be retracted three hours later.
This baby cat was badly wounded by the Zionist aggression.
Paging al-reuters, paging al-reuters......pictures need doctoring on aisle 7.
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