Posted on 08/06/2006 4:19:15 AM PDT by IsraelBeach
Massacre In Israel - Lebanon Hezbollah Rockets Murder 14
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Tel Aviv----August 6......Hezbollah terror Katusha rockets continued to rain down on Israel civilians, murdering 14 this afternoon in Kfar Giladi.
"It was a direct hit on a crowd of people," Dan Ronen, the chief of the Israel northern police command, told Israel Army Radio. Convoys of police and rescue vehicles raced to the scene of the massacre. "This was the most difficult thing I could have imagined in my career. There are nine bodies here covered in blankets, around us cars are going up in flames," Army Radio reporter reported as she choked back tears. "On one side is the cemetery, on the other side are the nine young bodies waiting for burial."
Israel's equivalent to the Red Cross - Magan David Adom stated that many others were seriously wounded as the rocket from Lebanon slammed into a meeting area between Kfar Giladi and Tel-Hai in the upper Galilee on the Israel Lebanon border.
Witnesses near Kiryat Shomena, which has been hardest hit in recent days, said that Katusha attack from Lebanon was going on more than 15 minutes after it had begun. Witnesses stated that this had hampered emergency services from reaching the scene.
One Israel emergency rescue service reported at least two rockets directly hit homes. Katusha rockets also landed in Nahariya and Karmiel, Rosh Pina and Safed.
On Sunday morning, At least seven rockets were fired at northern Israel on Sunday morning, causing no injuries or damage. Two rockets struck the Golan Heights, three landed near the village of Ma'alot, and two fell in an open area in the city of Safed.
This latest barrage of rockets follows a weekend in which three people were killed when a rocket scored a direct hit at their home in a western Galilee Arab-Israeli town. The three were a 60-year-old woman and her two daughters, both in their 30s. They were all in the same room at the time of the strike. They were later identified as Fadya Juma, 60, and her daughters Samira, 33, and Sultana, 31. Some 170 rockets landed in Israel throughout Saturday, with 120-130 of those falling in one hour in the late afternoon.
Over 100 Israelis have been murdered, including 44 members of the military and 30 civilians, according to authorities. Among the latest deaths are three Israel Arabs killed by Hezbollah's rockets in the villages of Mughar, Majdel Krum and Dir el-Assad. Three Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting with Hezbollah.
The US based monitoring group Human Rights Watch (HRW) Humanitarian organization has called on Hezbollah to immediately stop launching rockets into civilian areas within Israel, saying their actions constitute "war crimes." The rights watchdog said Hezbollah's assertions that it is targeting military bases within Israel are offset by the fact that most attacks have been aimed at schools, hospitals and businesses.
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said: "Lobbing rockets from Lebanon blindly into Israel civilian areas is without doubt a war crime. Nothing can justify this assault on the most fundamental standards for sparing civilians the hazards of war."
Ma'ayan Levy, a witness to the Katusha rocket attacks on Israel civilians by Lebanon Hezbollah at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi stated: "We did not start this war, Israel is defending herself from unprovoked Islamic terror cross-border attacks." Levy added: "When Israel hears of civilians dying in Lebanon our hearts are saddened, when children die, we as mothers and as Israelis cry, but when Hezbollah murders our civilians and children Hezbollah, Syria and Iran celebrate. How does one fight an enemy as barbaric as this?"
God watch over Israel
Watch how little coverage this gets, as compared with the Qana "massacre". . .
I'd feel better if He would actually DO something.
and give them strength.
ok i heard 10 dead from that group.where did the other 4 come from?
Look for yourself:
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/middle_east/5249972.stm
Oddly enough, there is not a single "angry" person, nobody quoted claiming it was an "atrocity"... WaPo says they were "reservists" - a term which covers pretty much every able-bodied Israeli Jew. No "outrage" to be found anywhere at all. Suddenly the treasonous Western press has rediscovered "just the facts, Ma'am".
Well, whatever He does and whenever He does it, I wouldn't want to be standing in the way.
IIRC, furing the first Gulf War, we had 20 or so National Guard troops killed when an Iraqi SCUD landed on their mess area...tragic..it's the golden BB
and how it will be portrayed, as Israel getting a taste of their own medicine, as just revenge on the part of the long suffering hezbulli, and never a mention of words such as atrocity or war crime, words reserved only for Israeli actions.
it's called the Ultimate Judgment - and no one escapes.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
**How does one fight an enemy as barbaric as this?"**
You fight them as they fight you. You kill them wherever you find them.
Hell's Bullies deliberately target innocent civilians in BOTH ISRAEL AND LEBANON!
A lucky hit by the scum of Hizb'Allah
"**How does one fight an enemy as barbaric as this?"**
You fight them as they fight you. You kill them wherever you find them. "
You're right on with that. We have to be ready to DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN. THERE ARE NO MORE RULES EXCEPT VICTORY.
Guess what? That was our only rule in winning WWII. Nothing else would have worked. Nothing else will work today.
My suggestion to the IDF is captured missiles should be returned to where they were constructed.
Arabs think they're winning (the MSM and CNN say so 24/7), and they won't stop until Israel is obliterated. That's the bottom line. No more Israel. Any cease-fire has to be looked at in that light, and to think otherwise is insane. Hezbollah/Iran/Syria will use the time to rearm with longer range rockets, etc.. They'll have WMD's ready to go, and at some point, boom. The next target is the US. It's all connected, like being circled by a pack of wolves. They'll probably blow up something in the US to soften any lingering support for Israel.
In HIS own good time.
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