Bodies pulled from wreckage in Lebanon

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mideast_fighting_bombed_village

QANA, Lebanon - Abu Shadi Jradi pulled bodies out of wreckage for hours — two toddler girls wearing tiny gold earrings, a small boy whose pale blue pacifier still hung from his neck. Somewhere in the middle, Jradi slumped beneath a tree and wept.

'There are so many children, so many children," the veteran civil defense worker said Sunday, barely able to get out the words.

The dead still had signs of their last moments, when dozens of members of the Shalhoub and Hashem families had gathered together for shelter and company during another night of Israeli bombardment. Kids wore the shorts and T-shirts they slept in. One body was wrapped in a child's bed sheet covered with Raggedy Ann and Andy figures.

Their three-story house on the outskirts of the village of Qana was leveled when a missile crashed into it at 1 a.m. Red Cross officials said 56 were killed. Police said 34 children and 12 adult women were among them — the worst single strike since Israel's campaign in Lebanon began on July 12.

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But many in Qana — like the thousands believed holed up across south Lebanon — said they were too afraid to leave on roads that have been heavily bombarded by Israeli forces. The main road to the nearest city, Tyre, is lined with cars smashed by missiles and pancaked buildings.



A man looks at the bodies of Lebanese victims, recovered from the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles at the village of Qana, after being prepared to be sent to the morgue at the Tyre Government Hospital in the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, Sunday, July 30, 2006. Dozens of civilians, including at least 20 children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that flattened houses in this southern Lebanon village _ the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

[Erika]

1. "suffer not the litlle ones" is a message from Christ

But fundamentalist Christians back Israel 100%.

I don't understand this disconnect.

[leftchick]

2. me either

perhaps it is the fact they are brown? :cry:

[Erika]

3. Do the Fundies not yet realize that Christ was "brown"

Not the blond haired blue eyed Aryan blond seen in churches everywhere.

[leftchick]

6. hell no!

they are clueless morons. We are doomed. :(

[madeline_con]

11. The "Palmolive Jesus", as Stephen King wrote.

blonde, blue eys... :eyes:

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Actually, what Jesus said was "Suffer the little children...

...to come unto me, and forbid them not, etc.."

Suffer, in this usage, does not mean to feel pain, but rather to allow, or put up with. "Suffer the little children..." means "let them," or "be patient with them. (Mark 10:14)

The phrase "suffer little children" since became common, meaning to be patient or put up with the actions of small kids. The same meaning applies to the phrase "I don't suffer fools." It has nothing to do with pain, but rather with putting up with.

[Erika]

8. I think the kids were not dealt with patiently n/t

[madeline_con]

12. Maybe the fundies think he meant let them die to get to him. n/t

[laheina]

14. Don't give them any ideas.

If they get tired of waiting for the rapture...:crazy:

[uppityperson]

4. I read that Qana/Cana is where Jesus changed water into wine, in bible

[leftchick]

7. I didn't know that!

how even more horribly sad. :cry:

I am sure Jesus is weeping.

[madeline_con]

13. At Cana, here's a wiki on it...

with a link to speculation on the location of Cana.

Marriage at Cana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_at_Cana

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[saigon68]

15. Au Revoir voyez-vous

[Scurrilous]

10. A Night of Death and Terror for Lebanese Villagers

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"The dead lay in strange shapes. Several had open mouths filled with dirt. Faces were puffy. A man’s arm was extended straight out from his body, his fingers spread. Two tiny children, a girl and boy, lay feet to head in the back of an ambulance, their skin like wax.

In the all-day scramble to retrieve the bodies from the remains of this one house — backhoes dug for hours at the site after an early-morning airstrike — tallies of the dead varied, from as many as 60 to 27, many of them children.

This was the single most lethal episode in the course of this sudden war. The survivors will remember it as the day their children died. For the village, it is a fresh pain in a wound cut more than 10 years ago, when an Israeli attack here killed more than 100 civilians. Many of them were children, too.

The Israeli government apologized for that airstrike, as it did for the one here on Sunday. It said that residents had been warned to leave and should have already been gone.

But leaving southern Lebanon now is dangerous. The two extended families staying in the house that the Israeli missile struck — the Shalhoubs and the Hashims — had discussed leaving several times over the past two weeks. But they were poor — most worked in tobacco or construction — and the families were big and many of their members weak, with a 95-year-old, two relatives in wheelchairs and dozens of children. A taxi north, around $1,000, was unaffordable."


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[Kailassa]

16. Yet, as with New Orleans, there will inevitably be posts here

blaming the victims for not having found a way to leave.

Not everyone can leave their home. And so many families evacuating have been burnt to death when the cars they were trying to escape in were bombed on the highways.

This is not war, and it is not about the Hiz'b Allah. It is long planned theft and murder. Theft of Lebanon's abundant water and murder of thoe competing for the use of it.

And we help, sending missiles that can penetrate their shelters, so we can share in the oil rights.

You can bet that the missiles that killed those children came from America, and were carefully targeted.