Posted on 07/15/2006 2:22:32 PM PDT by yankeedame
ELEVEN children and seven adults were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, their bodies consumed by flames when an Israeli warplane opened fire on the convoy they were in, UN peacekeepers and hospital sources said. Their charred remains were extracted from the wreckage of the minibus and car they were travelling in and taken to hospital.
A doctor, Ali Zeineddine, said they were burned alive.
"It is very difficult to identify the bodies or to distinguish between girls or boys, as the 18 victims perished from the fire triggered by incendiary shells. They grilled," he said.
They had been among residents fleeing villages close to the Israeli border and were killed when missiles struck a car and a minibus near Shamaa, hospital sources said. The children were aged between 7 and 12.
An officer with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), who was involved in the evacuation operation, told AFP that his team removed most of the burnt bodies.
"Some of them were thrown on olive trees and even on haystacks," said the officer, who declined to be named.
An AFP correspondent saw the blackened bodies of five of those killed, a father and his four children, at the hospital in Tyre.
The father of two of the other children killed, Mahmoud Ghannam, 55, who was not with the targeted convoy, broke down when he arrived at the hospital.
"My God, my God. I can't make out the faces of my children. They are burnt black... Which ones are my children?" he cried, repeatedly hitting his head with his hands.
"My God, Israel is the enemy of mankind," he wailed.
Ten other people were transported to hospital for treatment for burns and fractures, medics said.
Initial reports had put the number of children killed at nine and said the missiles had been fired by an Israeli helicopter gunship.
One of the survivors, nine-year-old Batoul Aatrissi, said from her hospital bed: "There was a plane over our heads. My father parked on the side of the road. There was an explosion, the car was picked up and knocked over and we were thrown around the place."
Her 13-year-old cousin Sadeq, badly peppered with shrapnel, added: "I remember only one thing, finding myself alone in the car with its wheels in the air. I called out but there was nobody. Then I found myself here."
The deaths of the 18 in the convoy contributed to a total of 30 civilians killed in a series of Israeli raids across Lebanon on Saturday. Another 45 people were wounded.
A Lebanese army soldier was also killed in an Israeli military strike on the coastal city of Batroun, north of Beirut.
At least 92 civilians have been killed and 252 wounded in Lebanon since Israel began its assault on Lebanon after the capture of two soldiers and the killing of eight others by the Syrian-backed militant group Hezbollah early Wednesday.
The Israeli army said it regretted the deaths of civilians, but said Hezbollah militias were to blame for putting their lives in danger.
It said in a statement that it had targeted the area near Tyre because it was "used as launching grounds for missiles fired by Hezbollah terror organisation at Israel".
"The IDF (Israeli Defence Force) regrets civilian casualties while targeting the missile launching area," it said.
"Responsibility for endangering the civilian population rests on the organisation which operates and launches missiles at Israel from populated civilian areas," the army said.
Guerrillas have fired over 100 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel over the past three days, killing four Israeli civilians.
Three people were also killed in another raid Saturday when Israeli jets struck the road leading to the main crossing of Masnaa between Lebanon and Syria, blocking passage across the border, police said.
And another three civilians were killed when Israeli jets fired missiles near a bridge on the outskirts of the northeastern town of Hermel on the border with Syria.
An Iraqi was killed and three other workers were wounded in an attack at a fuel station near the southern coastal city of Sidon, police said.
Didn't take these Jihadi cowards long to go from "open war" to crying for the cameras. Don't stop untill there's nothing left but vapors.
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_oct2001/Jihad.jpg
I wonder if this guy's got any agenda.
Who knows how many it prevented.
How do they even pretend to care their children are dying. These are the same folks that put mock bombs on their children for parades and celebrations.
What is this, a joke? An anti-Semitic screed from a French Arab Muslim?
"My God, Israel is the enemy of mankind," he wailed.
No, Sir, Israel is not the enemy of mankind, it is the people who are consumed by righteous retribution, sweat misery and breed violence and are not satisfied until others suffer worse than they do.
Exactly.
The traitor, Dahr Jamail, the "reporter" that has exposed the "chemical weapons used on Fallujah citizens" and many other claims of US atrocities, released a story from Beirut this week. Watch for many many more stories of Israel's "crimes against humanity" from this human turd. Next his comrades, Ramsey Clark and Medea Benjamin, will hold a fake tribunal convicting Ohlmert of war crimes...
2001, eh?
How old are they now?
14-19 years old?
God must weep.
Tom has witnessed the Indians scalping his father while his father lay wounded.
This was following the Crooked Walk.
Indians rose up and killed every white person they could, even those who had befriended, fed and sheltered them for many winters, as the Quicks had.
The info is suspect. How many Hezbollah terrorists were traveling in that convoy? If these people were really innocent, why would they be traveling with terrorists?
I have a very hard heart with respect to even little monsters such portrayed in the pictures that I posted.
[Warning: link is to a 7.59MB WMV format video that is rated X - for mature audiences only - and not to be viewed by anybody susceptible to any sort of queasiness as it may be respecting to the sight of blood or gray matter splattered onto surfaces, etc., et. ali., and whatnot]
My only solace would be in the assurance given in The Word, that any child dying before achieving the age of accountability IS with the Lord immediately upon their death (whatever the reason of their death). Each and every single person ever born is immediately subject to The Judgement the instant they can discern a difference between right/wrong. That age is different for each and every individual. Despite the "sin nature" inherent in our corporal bodies, we're not under The Judgement until that time of maturity where we know what we do is wrong (and we do it anyways). Each and every person that lived needs a personal savior - Jesus - after that point in time.
I'm not going to entertain arguments such as what about the Ainu Indians from 20k years ago. Listen: God is self-evident through general revelation (creation). No matter what, when, where, or during what time period: a realization comes to all people at some time during their life that God exists (and who He is).
Succinctly put: once one understands what "murder" (or ANY other crime in the eyes of the Lord) is, then they are accountable, and subject to The Judgement.
That's why the Laws of War require combatants to wear uniforms and seperate themselves from civilians. Personally I'm tired of these Islamic "warriors" getting a pass.
You don't lead they as much. (Full Metal Jacket 1987)
"Daddy" didn't safeguard their futures by either moving from the region, or by doing whatever he could to rid his region of those terrorists who would eventually bring retribution unto themselves and those who live nearby.
"Daddy" killed his kids by being a spineless, Jew-hating, Islamofacist loving drone.
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