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.
You can't call what they do to their youth over there nothing short of brainwashing.All they do in the radical islamic schools is rock back and forth,sitting on a hard floor and recite the Koran for hours on end.No wonder they're easily swayed into strapping on suicide vest.
It's media propaganda.
boo friggin hoo.
just eliminating future terrorists IMO.
What you said BUMP.
You're exactly right.
Amen, pod'nah....
The inner/secret contents of one's "heart" are only truly discernable by one Being in this universe.
That being said, I wouldn't entrust the eternal destination of anybodys eternal soul on speculations concerning "general revelation" and "age of accountability".
I guess it boils down to this: a mother and child get on a bus, and mother hands her two year old a live-grenade to play with. Child pulls the pin and twenty five are killed, and thirty are wounded (10 being lamed for the rest of their lives). Who goes to hell?
My position: the two-year old, e.g., if they haven't achieved the age of accountability are instantly with the Lord. With respect to anybody else's fate, I couldn't unequivocally state anything except what is proclaimed in Jn 3:16.
Zec 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
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"The father of two of the other children killed, Mahmoud Ghannam, 55, who was not with the targeted convoy"
The "targeted convoy"...
French Translation: Israel is INTENTIONALLY targeting children
Next Up: Israel intentionally attacks baby nursery. Eats babies.
How do we know this family wasn't transporting arms for Hezbollah?
Nobody celebrates innocent casualties, but Arab tactics are Arab tactics. We shouldn't be fooled that Hezbollah wouldn't bat an eye at using women and children and families to shield their activities.
Or, this group was unfortunate enough to just get caught in the crosshairs.
B. S. … or keep the hell out of conveys in a war zone!
This is an important new bulletin in my eyes: in that we all must be extremely critical respecting what we accept as unimpeachable news sources. The Lord of This World is running amok (having free reign therein), and will beguile and deceive you with appearances of light (and all sorts of amazing things).
The report that you mentioned is only the beginning of what is to come. I was on DU today looking up something - did you know there is no search functionality at DU? Did you know that? WHAT IN THE WORLD KIND OF RESPECTABLE FORUM DOESN"T HAVE A SEARCH FUNCTION?????? What was I talking about? Oh, yeah, there were no less than 5 threads evident where they were cheering, clammoring and begging the Rapture to occur. Yeah, as if that's going to solve the liberal person's problems.
You mark my words well: when (not IF), the Rapture happens, and if it happens in the very immediate future, ALL of you remaining to read my words thereafter will positively, and totally, rue these days right now.
Amen! Too many of the islamics pass themselves off as victims. Reminds me of the demoncRATS' ploy. Best defense is a good offense.
Lie down with Jihadists, wake up in flames. The blood of those children is on their own parents' hands.
"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours." — Golda Meir
Sorry, but I haven't a clue what you're talking about.
Exactly.
Families incinerated in Lebanon?
Maybe the Arab world should be treated to scenes of Americans dancing in the streets of New York and handing out candy like the Palestinians did after 9/11.
These people are pathetic.
Rapture?
So you believe that God, who wants on to base our belief in Him on faith, will pull all of the believing Christians out of the world "in the twinkling of an eye" and leave everyone else here to decide for themselves if he really does exist.
Wouldn't such an event leave absolutely no doubt to those "left behind" and totally erase the decide for yourself option?
I have some trouble with the rapture concept... but it's okay for you... I guess.
reminiscent of Ghenkis Khan, to quote a famous gentlescum
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