Workers of the Lebanese Red Cross deliver the bodies of a mother and child.
A grieving family sits next to the bodies of several children.
Posted on 07/21/2006 7:42:02 PM PDT by NYer
All Things Considered, July 21, 2006 · Carpenters and volunteers were hard at work in the courtyard of Tyre’s state hospital today, busily constructing dozens of coffins for a mass burial for more than 80 Lebanese civilians who were killed in the 10-day-old Israeli bombing campaign.
Nearby, two trucks stood parked. For days, their motors have been running around the clock. They are refrigerator trucks, and since the hospital mortuary overflowed at the start of the Israeli bombing campaign, they have been used to store a growing cargo of corpses.
The hospital's director, Dr. Salman Zeynadin, says many of the victims died from serious burns, the results of Israeli air and artillery strikes in the villages and countryside around Tyre. With the situation still too dangerous to hold proper burials, Dr. Zeynadin ordered the temporary burial of the bodies in a mass grave.
Doctors in Tyre say since the fighting began, the city's hospitals have received more then 300 wounded and 102 dead.
Israeli jets have repeatedly bombed the road network in southern Lebanon. The road to Tyre snakes past demolished bridges and bombed gas stations. Cars have to skirt around huge craters in the road.
The town of Tyre itself is almost completely deserted. In the ancient port, several men sat next to idle fishing boats. George Atiya, a 48-year old carpenter, said his friends and neighbors have been receiving automated phone calls from the Israeli military, with warnings recorded in Arabic instructing them to evacuate all of Southern Lebanon.
Across town today, bulldozers dug two long trenches in an abandoned field. And in the afternoon, Lebanese army trucks loaded with coffins, backed into the pits.
One by one, soldiers dragged the boxes out and laid them on the ground. As they worked, Israeli warplanes began bombing a ridge just a few miles away.
Just before bulldozers finally filled in the pits, workers rushed in to add another coffin. It contained the body of a Lebanese woman killed in an Israeli air strike today. She was buried along with 81 others.
Day after day, Red Cross worker Sam Zheir has been bringing dead and wounded people in from the countryside. All of them, he said, were civilians. Many were buried today.
As the Israeli military bombs southern Lebanon, aircraft periodically drop leaflets over the countryside, instructing people in Arabic to evacuate the area and move north, for their own safety.
But leaving is dangerous. Two days ago, Zheir says he found a car full of fleeing civilians, which had been hit by an Israeli bomb.
A grieving family sits next to the bodies of several children.
The airport runways have been destroyed; bridges have been bombed; navigation lanes are now monitored. Where are the evacuees supposed to go? And how are they supposed to get there?
How do they know they are civilians?
North.
And how are they supposed to get there?
Walk.
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But leaving is dangerous. Two days ago, Zheir says he found a car full of fleeing civilians, which had been hit by an Israeli bomb.
They must have waited too long.
The "Party of Allah" should feel real good about themselves. As long is Tehran is happy.
Becuse the Red Cross said so, we know they have never bent the truth :)
Hezbollah is not an official government army. They are a civilian militia who hide behind women and children when they fight.
I guarantee as they get their butts pushed back farther into Lebannon, they will start hiding in Christian villages and use them as human shields.
Not a word of Hezbollah? You know, the guys firing rockets into Israel? They use women and children as shields so that pictures of the dead can be on used by the leftist America.
How many days does it take to evacuate a 20 mile strip of land?
All the dead are civilians.
Can't hold a weapon if you are dead.
Ya, really. I wanna see Hezbollah coffins. I bet they're extremely hard to find.
It's a good thing because that's where the IDF is heading. Probably in two prongs, one from the south and one from the east.
Yeah, isn't it amazing that the Israelis haven't killed one Hezzi militant?
Across the river, hopefully anything south of the river will be a killing zone.
OBTW: I don't believe the Mooslim press for one minute. Those guys can squeal like stuck pigs when there guys are in danger.
NPR has been great on covering the suffering of the poor Lebanonese living among the Hizb'allah. Lots of human suffering, pathos, fear and loathing. And their on-site
reporters..all locals or American transplants...give a good
perspective from the terrorist side.
Too bad they don't have a single soul in Israel giving a report..other than Linda Gradstein..who seems to always find a reason to ignore what's happening in Israel.
Against the 387 killed in Lebanon (compare to the 37 Israelis killed from 400 unguided rockets sent by Hizb'Allah) NPR has yet to give any in depth reports from
Israel.
Come to think of it, Hizb'Allah must be pretty weak given the kill ratio. Sort of like N. Koreans with a turban. For all of their vaunted ferocity, they just can't get their no-dongs to do much damage.
But, but ... they all died for Allah! NPR, the Dems, and the muslimes should be happy! :)
Either an IED or they were driving a duce and a half.
So what's your point-of-view, NYer? What's up with this post?
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