On Tuesday July 25th, the Israelis killed 4 UN observers in an airstrike on a United Nations Observer Group (UNIFIL) building in southern Lebanon. On Monday... Israeli tank shells slammed into a UNIFIL position, wounding four Ghanaian soldiers, while last week an Indian soldier from UNIFIL was seriously wounded by Israeli tanks shells. You never know where terrorists might be hiding... they certainly have been seen in certain neighborhoods and villages across Lebanon, and the IDF has shown great wisdom in blowing up thousands of homes in order to get them. But when you run out of civilian homes to blow up, you must seek other targets. No doubt the Israeli's have good intelligence indicating terrorists have now taken to hiding in ambulances and on UN bases, so don't wince when you see these things blown up by the IDF, remember - Israel is doing Lebanon a favor!

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-07-25T220926Z_01_L25244524_RTRUKOC_0_UK-MIDEAST-LEBANON-UN.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-C2-AlsoToday-3

I condemn terror, and Hezbollah firing hundreds of missiles at Israel... but for God's sake! Bombing the civilian population of Lebanon and making nearly a million decent people homeless! What the hell?! Bombing food warehouses, bridges, Christian television stations, hospitals and now ambulances and UN posts... the Israelis have gone stark raving mad. Their IS no defense or justification for what has been committed in Lebanon... and I'm afraid we are only just seeing the beginnings of a wider, more destructive war. That the U.S. refuses to implement a cease fire is beyond belief... and criminal.


http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/lebanons-pain-seen-in-a-mothers-heartbreak/2006/07/26/1153816189373.html

>> Tyre's volunteer ambulance service was suspended after an air strike on two of its vehicles as they swapped the injured from three generations of the one family at a rendezvous between two local towns. A medic, Qasim Chaalan, said he thought he had died after the first missile hit. Piece by piece, he noticed that he was still there, inside the ambulance.

Another medic fumbled for the radio and began: "We have an accident …" He didn't finish the sentence. A second missile smashed into the ambulance behind them. "When we were driving in the ambulance before, we did not feel we are safe 100 per cent," Mr Chaalan told the Los Angeles Times from hospital on Monday. "But now it's direct on us."<<

>> UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today said he was "shocked" at Israel's "apparently deliberate targeting" of a UN post in Lebanon, in which up to four UN observers were killed.

Mr Annan described the strike as a "co-ordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked UN post."
He said it took place "despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that UN positions would be spared Israeli fire."

"Furthermore, General Alain Pelligrini, the UN Force Commander in south Lebanon, had been in repeated contact with Israeli officers throughout the day on Tuesday, stressing the need to protect that particular UN position from attack.

"I call on the Government of Israel to conduct a full investigation into this very disturbing incident and demand that any further attack on UN positions and personnel must stop.

"The names and nationalities of those killed are being withheld pending notification of their families. I extend sincere condolences to the families of our fallen peacekeepers." <<

A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.

Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of the Hezbollah's political arm, also told The Associated Press in an interview that the Shiite militant group will not lay down arms.

In separate remarks early Wednesday, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah defiantly vowed his fighters would begin firing rockets deeper into Israel, beyond the northern port of Haifa.

"The truth is — let me say this clearly — we didn't even expect (this) response ... that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us," said Komati.

He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel after the two soldiers were seized by guerrillas on Israel's side of the border on July 12.

In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon, seizing Hezbollah officials and briefly targeting specific strongholds in southern Lebanon.

Komati said his group had anticipated negotiations to swap the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese held in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it has in past prisoner exchanges.

In a speech broadcast on Hezbollah's al-Manar television, Nasrallah urged his people to be patient, apparently counting on growing international anger at the Israeli offensive in which hundreds of Lebanese have died.

"Our steadfastness will change the regional and international reality around us. The enemy won't have a lot of time, no matter what cover the American administration is providing it," Nasrallah said.

He said the group would enter a new stage in the fighting, vowing "our attacks will not remain limited to Haifa." In the last two weeks, Hezbollah has rained hundreds of rockets on northern Israel, reaching targets farther south than in any previous attacks. The group has repeatedly hit the city of Haifa, the third largest in Israel.

Komati said Hezbollah captured the Israeli soldiers from a military area, but charged that Israelis had taken Hezbollah leaders from their homes at night.

"The response is unjustified," Komati said. He claimed the Israeli offensive was planned in advance, and Israel was only "waiting for the right time" to carry it out, a claim repeated by Nasrallah.

Asked about reports that Hezbollah has been firing Iranian-made missiles on Israel, Komati said: "We don't deny nor confirm. We believe where the weapons come from is irrelevant."

Condoleezza (The Bush Oil Bitch): "Sorry to Oil the Arming of Irgun Zvai Leumi / Likud Extremist in IsraOil and the Intention Targeting of UN and Red Cross Personnel by IDF IAF Nazis but Oil comes First. Fill her Up ???????"