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Israel Begins the Next Holocaust...in Lebanon
(Nasser Nasser and Sam F. Ghattas, Associated Press, 2 August 2006)
Villagers outside this Hezbollah stronghold used the bucket of a front-end loader to carry away the dead Wednesday, after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid killed 16. . . . It was Israel's deepest assault on the ground into Lebanon in 12 years. . . . Sixteen civilians, including a family of seven, died in the heavy clashes and air raids. A Hezbollah leader rumored to have been the target of the operation spoke by phone to the guerrilla organization's television station later to prove he was not captured. . . . Bodies of the dead were hastily shrouded in white cloth and carried for burial to the al-Jamaliyeh village graveyard in the end-loader bucket. Both the village and the Dar al-Hikma Hospital were about half a mile from the center of Baalbek. . . . The village mayor, Hussein Jamaleddin, lost his son, brother and five other relatives. He broke down, cried hysterically and pulled at a limb of his dead son hanging out of the giant shovel. . . . "This is the leg of my son. He was a sportsman, he did tae kwon do," Jamaleddin wailed. . . . By launching a commando raid so far from its borders, at least 55 miles from its nearest territory, Israel also showed it could strike at will and anywhere inside Lebanon despite tough Hezbollah resistance along the border area with Israel. . . . Over the decades, Baalbek was famous for its Roman ruins and the international festival under the towering columns that attracted the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.

posted by Lorenzo 1:15 PM