The Daily Background
| Middle East Update (Updated)
by Arlen Parsa
NYT: “Dozens” killed by Israeli airstrikes today… attacked small, remote town, individual houses bombed, “deadliest single attack in the war”… Rice cancels her trip to Lebanon… Hezbollah says it will retaliate…
At least 28 civilians killed, 20 of them children… Some reports say as high as 50-57 killed… 60 people unaccounted for and believed dead… Half dozen “small children[’s]” bodies found with “mouths open and full of dirt” in wreckage…
“International cry for a halt to Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has been growing”…
Reuters: Kofi Annan calls for emergency UN meeting, demands immediate Israeli ceasefire…
Associated Press: “At least 56 people, more than half children” found dead…
Israeli military “denies safe passage” to United Nations World Food Program convoy to South Lebanon… denial of humanitarian aid… refuses to promise not to bomb UN humanitarian aid to civilians…. UN fears for personnel’s lives… cancelled convoy…
Reuters 2: Israeli PM claims humanitarian aid is allowed to village hit… claims “deep sorrow”… Israeli military called village a ‘hub’ for Hezbollah… no Hezbollah militants appear to have been killed in strike…
Reuters 3: 60 civilians dead, 37 of them children… Rice claims she feels ‘unwelcome’ in Beirut, cancels trip… Israeli military calls village “hub for Hizbollah”…
19 Days of war, full death toll: Lebanese health minister now estimates “toll at 750 including unrecovered bodies”… only 9 of them Lebanese soldiers killed in barracks stationed in middle of Lebanon… 51 Israelis killed, 33 of them soldiers…
BBC: In dramatic reversal and stunning disobedience to Bush, Bliar calls for immediate ceasefire…
CNN: Israeli PM calls buildiong hit “mistake”… Israeli military says “Israel was exercising its right to defend itself”….Red Cross says one building hit was acting as refugee safehouse… Rice scurries back to Washington…
Children were killed while sleeping… many of them “handicapped”…
Lebanese PM condems attack, United States calls Lebanese condemnation “unfortunate”…
JPost: In response Hezbollah has fired 140 rockets into Israel, wounding 1 person “moderately” and 7 people “lightly”… no one was killed…
UPDATE HERE
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