"The identity of the victims was not clear, except that they were not the original inhabitants of the building; a National Public Radio correspondent reported that they had left. . . . Who were these people?"
Were they, perhaps, people that Hezbollah was only too happy to get rid of, so they were moved into the building before Hezbollah blew it up? The dead little boy with the deformed foot suggests that the children might have been sick or crippled or orphans, and the women similarly "disposable" in Hezbollah's view. When I first saw the photos I was surprised that the boy's deformed foot had not been exploited, e.g. "Look, the Israelis killed a child who could not run away".
Now I think the child may have been chosen deliberately by H. to die because they viewed him as a useless nuisance and therefore a good candidate for sacrifice.
If this incident were staged, it proves that we are dealing with human beings on the lowest rung of cultural development. These are people so evil that they think life is a day in the spa as they swirl downward in the toilet bowl of history.