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shrike Today 01:42 pm According to whom? Lebanese government give me a break they claim that everyone is civilians except is their own soldiers. How it can be??? Can they cite names of the alleged victims?

For what purpose would you need a list of the victims. It seems morbid to me. Do you need a list of your dead 'foes'.

Based on information provided by relatives, news sources identified the victims of the attack on the convoy as: * `Ali Kamil Abdullah and his son `Ali, Sana� Muhammad Abdullah, Subha Abdullah and the children: Hadi Muhammad Abdullah, Rym Ibrahim Abdullah, Kamil Abdullah, Hassan Kamil Abdullah, Muhammad Kamil Abdullah, Hussain Kamil Abdullah, Zahra Faris Abdullah * Muhammad Musa Ghannam, his wife Suha, and their children: Qassim, Mustapha, Hussain, Zaynab, Da`a�, Amina `Ali Ghannam .

A photographer for an international news agency who arrived at the scene two hours after the attack told Human Rights Watch that he saw a white pick-up and a passenger car completely destroyed. He counted 16 dead bodies. This account was confirmed to Human Rights Watch by UNIFIL (the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon), which had dispatched a vehicle to the scene to recover the bodies and transport them to the city of Tyre. Subsequent news reports placed the number of dead at 20, including 9 children. The photojournalist indicated that he saw two craters where the Israeli rockets had hit, one very close to the pick-up and another approximately 100 meters away. He was not able to identify the type of rocket used in the attack. UNIFIL did not provide any details about the rockets, as a spokesman for the mission indicated that they do not have an observation post in the vicinity. Journalists posted in southern Lebanon later reported that the attack appeared to be the result of rockets fired from helicopters. Eyewitnesses told Human Rights Watch that some of the bodies were completely burned and others cut-up, which was corroborated by photos of the scene. Most of the bodies were clustered around the pick-up. The photojournalist interviewed by Human Rights Watch said he saw the body of one girl 20 meters away from the pick-up and the bodies of one man and a child 100 meters away, close to where the second crater fell. He indicated that he did not see any armed person among the bodies. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, approximately 100 residents from the village sought refuge and humanitarian assistance at a U.N. peacekeepers position situated 1.5 kilometers from the village. The residents informed the U.N. peacekeepers that the IDF had ordered them to leave the village and that they had no means to escape besides fleeing on foot. According to a UNIFIL spokesperson, peacekeeping officers contacted their liaison officers at the IDF and the Lebanese army and did not receive confirmation of the evacuation order. Accordingly, the peacekeepers told the villagers to return to their village with the belief that this might be safer for them. At 11 a.m., a group from the village of Marwahin left the town in the convoy that was subsequently hit. UNIFIL told Human Rights Watch that the individuals in the convoy were not part of the group of 100 villagers who had sought refuge at UNIFIL's post because that group did not have vehicles to leave the village.

IDF Must Take Precautions to Protect Civilians Fleeing Areas at Risk



Shrike, most of the time your silly naive post are endearing. Like a silly young child but with no malice unlike other contributors here who use their posts to demonstrate their real racism.

But, at a time like now, when your country men are killing children by the score, your naivety is NOT endearing. I'm sure you are not, but just now with postings, you come across as an INSENSITIVE PIG. Does service in the IDF ensure that all good human qualities are erased! "The only good Arab is a dead one" line of thought. Or "I'll let my six gun do my talking for me". "Revenge is sweet" or "an eye for an eye". Progress from shooting kids who throw stones at tanks to blasting them from the sky seems to have been a simple progression for the IDF. You'll have a hard time convincing me that these were not intentional hits on families.

Human Rights Watch said today. Under international humanitarian law, all parties to an armed conflict must take all feasible precautions to protect civilians fleeing areas at risk.

These kids had nothing to do with 911