QANA, Lebanon - (Associated Press) An Israeli airstrike killed at least 56 people, including at least 34 children, in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, the Lebanese Red Cross said. Lebanese security officials put the toll at 57 dead. Security officials said the toll rose dramatically after 18 people from two families were found in a single room of the building, where dozens of people had been taking refuge from the fighting. The missiles destroyed several homes in the village of Qana as people were sleeping.

Israeli said it targeted Qana because it was a base for hundreds of rockets launched at Israeli, including 40 that injured five Israelis on Sunday.

Rescuers aided by villagers dug through the rubble by hand. At least 20 bodies wrapped in white sheets were taken away, including 10 children. A row of houses lay in ruins, and an old woman was carried away on a plastic chair.
Villagers said many of the dead were from four families who had taken refuge in on the ground floor of a three-story building, believing they would be safe from bombings.

"We want this to stop!" shouted Mohammed Ismail, a middle-aged man pulling away at the rubble in search for bodies, his brown pants covered in dust. "May God have mercy on the children. They came here to escape the fighting."
"They are hitting children to bring the fighters to their knees," he said.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saniora said Lebanon would be open only to an immediate cease-fire. "There is no place at this sad moment for any discussions other than an immediate and unconditional cease-fire as well as international investigation of the Israeli massacres in Lebanon now," he told reporters Sunday.

More than 5,000 people protested in central Beirut, denouncing Israel and the United States, some chanting, "Destroy Tel Aviv, destroy Tel Aviv." A few broke car windows and tried briefly to break into the main U.N. building until political leaders called for a halt to damage. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr questioned Israel's claim that Hezbollah fired rockets from the village. "What do you expect Israel to say? Will it say that it killed 40 children and women?" he told Al-Jazeera television.

Qana, in the hills east of the southern port city of Tyre, has a bloody history. In 1996, Israeli artillery killed more than 100 civilians who had taken refuge at a U.N. base in the village. That attack sparked an international outcry that helped end an Israeli offensive.

The attack drew swift condemnation from several world leaders. French President Jacques Chirac's office said "France condemns this unjustifiable action, which shows more than ever the need to move toward an immediate cease-fire, without which other such dramas can only be repeated." Jordan's King Abdullah II condemned "the ugly crime perpetrated by Israeli forces in Qana," calling it "a blatant violation of the law and all international conventions."

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BEIRUT (AFP) - Angry Lebanese protestors have stormed the building of the United Nations in Beirut, smashing glass doors and hacking at the furniture in rage at

After the violent protest at UN headquarters, thousands of people -- some in tears and others shouting angry slogans -- converged from both Christian and Muslim areas of the capital on Riad Solh Square where the building is located.
After hearing news of the carnage in Qana which killed 51 people, including 25 children, a group of protestors attacked and briefly occupied the UN House in downtown Beirut where they smashed windows, burned curtains and destroyed furniture. A small group of protestors burned an American flag while shouting: "Death to America."

"Feltman out now!" demonstrators also shouted, referring to US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman. "Thank you America for your smart bombs, on behalf of our slain children," read one banner carried by the protestors, most of whom were also raising Lebanese flags. Activists also waved flags of several parties, including the yellow standard of Hezbollah. "Dear (Hassan) Nasrallah, strike Tel Aviv," they chanted, addressing the head of the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah which has met Israeli attacks with fierce resistance for the past 19 days, firing rockets into northern Israel.

A group of youths hoisted the Hezbollah flag on one of the poles outside the building. Inside, demonstrators smashed the electronic announcement screen positioned at the entrance of the UN premises.

More than 500 people, mostly civilians, have been killed by Israeli bombardments since the Jewish state launched a massive offensive on Lebanon after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers at the borders on July 12 in an attempt to secure an exchange of prisoners.

Qana was also the site of an Israeli bombing of a UN base on April 18, 1996 that killed 105 people who had taken refuge there during Israel's "Grapes of Wrath" offensive -- another operation aimed at wiping out Hezbollah.

The demonstration in central Beirut only calmed down after Hezbollah militants forced protestors to leave the UN House and Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri appealed to them to disperse and not attack any building. "I call on my people and brothers and on the youngsters demonstrating outside the ESCWA (UN building) to desist from any demonstration and any attack on any building," he said on the Arab television channel Al-Jazeera. He urged them "to return from where they came and to give the whole world a chance to stand by us without any distortion (of Lebanon's image)".

Civil Defence workers with the bodies of two children slain by Israeli missiles in Qana. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

Medical personnel line up bodies outside the Tyre (Soure) hospital after an Israeli air raid on Qana killed more than 54 people, 37 of them children, in south Lebanon, July 30, 2006. Photo Ali Hashisho - LEBANON/Reuters

Case closed.

This is the Qana massacre of 1994 all over again. The Israelis have to actually be insane to do this. In terms of worldwide condemnation, they might as well have aimed the guns at themselves.

This is yet another brazen attack on a UN compound of course. Oh, but it was "a acks-i-det." Muh-huh

CONDOLEEZZA THE BUSH OIL WITCH: "Sorry to Oil the Arming of Irgun Zvai Leumi / Likud Terrorist / IDF IAF Nazis with Smart Bombs, Cluster Bombs, Laser Guided Bombs, Napalm, Poison Gas, War Planes, and Missles and the Intentional Massacures of Lebanese Civilians by IsraOIl but Oil comes First. Fill her Up ??????"

Woman and Child Killed by IOF Bombardment in Beit Hanoun
Report, PCHR, 1 August 2006

A Palestinian relative of 14 year-old Aref mourns during his funeral, northern Gaza Strip, 1 August 2006. (MaanImages/Wesam Saleh)
PCHR is concerned over the around-the-clock artillery bombardment by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) against the north of the Gaza Strip. This bombardment has cost the lives of tens of Palestinian civilians, and forced hundreds of others to leave their homes. The latest victims of IOF bombardment were a Palestinian woman and child, who were killed in the afternoon hours of 1 August 2006 in the Nada Buildings area, west of Beit Hanoun.

PCHR's preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 13:40 on Tuesday, 1 August 2006, IOF stationed to the east of the northern district of the Gaza Strip fired several artillery shells at the Nada Buildings area, west of Beit Hanoun. One of the shells fell near building no. 8. Shrapnel from the shell killed the child Aref Ahmad Abu Qeida (14). The child was in his grandfather's house near building no. 8. Three other civilians were injured, including a woman from Rafah who was visiting relatives in the area. This woman, Mervat Fayez Abu Sharikh (24), was pronounced dead one hour after reaching a hospital. The two others who were injured are Sami Abbas Darabeih (43), who sustained shrapnel wounds in the chest, and Eyad Sabri Jendeyya (30), who sustained shrapnel wound in the right hip.

It is noted that the Nada Buildings area has become a daily target of IOF artillery shelling. IOF announced last week that it will directly target the area. As a result, most of the area residents left their homes. Palestinian casualties fall on a daily basis in the area. For more information regarding the events in the Nada Buildings area, refer to PCHR's weekly report for last week.

PCHR strongly condemns the IOF killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the destruction of their property. IOF disproportionate use of force places the lives of civilians at additional risk during these operations, which are a form of reprisal and collective punishment against Palestinians, a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The Centre confirms that indiscriminate aggression will inflict additional damages on civilians and civilian property. The prior knowledge that these attacks will cause civilian casualties and destruction of their property is a violation of the convention, and a war crime in the first protocol additional to the convention.

In the Center's view, the complacency of the international community and the High Contracting Parties of the 4th Geneva Convention and their failure to take effective steps to stop Israeli war crimes has been a supporting and encouraging element for Israel to continue perpetrating additional war crimes against Palestinian civilians. The legal cover provided to Israel by the US, which purposely hinders International Humanitarian Law, and the conspiracy of silence by Europe, encourage Israeli to continue to perpetrate war crimes unchecked, placing it above international law.

The Centre reminds the High Contracting Parties of:

# Their obligations under Article 1 of the convention to ensure respect of the convention under all circumstances;

# Their obligations in Article 146 of the convention to pursue suspects of committing serious violations of the convention, noting that these violations are war crimes according to Article 147, as specified in the first protocol additional to the convention

Go here

http://tinyurl.com/o8zfc

and you'll see it came from this monster:

http://www.naomiragen.com/

Yup, you guessed it, zionist psycho-trash. She immigrated to Israel from Brooklyn in 1971 (following Meir Kahane evidently, probably wanting to bear his children), then she did a stint at -- you guessed it -- the Jerusalem Post, Israel's leading kill-all-Ay-rabs psycho-right rag (thuh baby-slabber's fave). She's very prolific and constantly appearing in all the very finest psycho-right blogs (lots of fascinating admissions here for example: http://jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/007839.php ) Her writings are typical of psychos even further to the right than Sharon.

As for http://www.libanoscopie.com , yeah that's a Lebanese site all right -- fronting for psycho-right Christian whacks who want to suck USrael's dick. Remember what the Lebanese Phalange did in 1982?

This website contains pictures that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon 's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.

The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons. Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut , were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

This website contains pictures that damns Hezbollah. It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon 's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.

The images, obtained exclusively by the Sunday Herald Sun, show Hezbollah using high-density residential areas as launch pads for rockets and heavy-calibre weapons. Dressed in civilian clothing so they can quickly disappear, the militants carrying automatic assault rifles and ride in on trucks mounted with cannon.The photographs, from the Christian area of Wadi Chahrour in the east of Beirut , were taken by a visiting journalist and smuggled out by a friend.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,19955774-5007220,00.html

Do you really think your forgeries are fooling anybody?

If that's what you have to keep telling yourself to rationalize your futile spinning in circles for you fantasy zionist cyber warrior cause, go right ahead, sweet-pea.
You are a joke to the real world, though.

It means they are targetting the occupiers. With a liittle luck, many settlers will die, and justice will be served. Settlers are scum. Death to the occupatio. Death to the occupiers.

exactly what Bush would do to your hometown if it was in open rebellion against the state.

Due to your condoning overt zionist-racism, genuine zionazis now proudly barge in and post their bile openly identifying as zioslugs.

Not impressed
I already became worried for the Zionists. Where were you today? Don't forget we "anti-zios" were posting here and enjoying some meaningful exchanges with thinking human beings way before you showed your scabrous rear here and plunged this site into a downward spiral.