Guest guest Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Please help stop this - Send this e-mail to all your contacts :: ISRAEL WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON :: Help stop War Crimes with the massacre of thousands of civilians by Israel, having the full support of the Bush Administration This e-mail shows the beggining of a new bloody war in the Middle East. This war has for the Israelli government, the objective of invading and controlling the Palestinian and Lebanese territories, along with the preparation of the invasion of Syria, with the full political and military support of the United States, under the Bush Administration. (More News: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info ) * Warning - Contains Graphic Images * Lebanese children and family killed by Israelli missiles TAKE ACTION - HELP STOP THESE WAR CRIMES: Boycott Israel and US products/services, send a protest against the invasion of other countries and the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en & q=israel+government :: ISRAEL WAR CRIMES :: Images: Israeli Attacks Kill Civilians - war - israel - massacre - lebanon - hezbollah - beirut Videos: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14002.htm Lebanon - Civilians (including many children) killed by Israel: (More images to see: http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/47671/overview ) * * * Palestine - Children shot and killed by Israelli soldiers: (More images to see: http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/41155/overview ) Israel kills 32 civilians in air strikes 07/15/06 "Reuters" -- -- BEIRUT - Israel killed at least 32 civilians on Saturday, including 15 children, in air strikes meant to punish Lebanon for letting Hizbollah guerrillas menace the Jewish state's northern border.Israel's bombing of Lebanese roads, bridges, ports and airports, as well as Hizbollah targets, is its most destructive onslaught since its 1982 invasion to expel Palestinian forces.An Israeli missile incinerated a van in south Lebanon, killing 20 people, among them 15 children, in the deadliest single attack of the four-day-old campaign launched by Israel after Hizbollah captured two of its soldiers and killed eight. Police said the van was carrying two families fleeing the village of Marwaheen after Israeli loudspeaker warnings to leave their homes.Raids on roads and petrol stations in north, east and south Lebanon killed 12 people and wounded 32, security sources said, bringing the death toll in four days of Israeli attacks to 99. All but three of the dead have been civilians. Hizbollah rockets, meanwhile, struck deeper into Israel than ever before on Saturday, wounding eight people and damaging two buildings in the Sea of Galilee town of Tiberias, police said.Altogether 10 Israelis were wounded throughout northern Israel as about 80 rockets rained down from Lebanon. A military spokesman said Israel had deployed Patriot missile batteries in the northern city of Haifa to intercept Hizbollah rockets. Rocket attacks have killed four civilians, including a child, in northern Israel this week.President George W. Bush, who has declined to urge Israel to curb its military operations, said Syria should tell Hizbollah, which is also backed by Iran, to stop cross-border attacks. In strikes on Beirut, Israeli warplanes flattened Hizbollah's nine-storey headquarters and destroyed the office of a Hamas leader, Mohammed Nazzal. An official of the ruling Palestinian Islamist group said Nazzal had survived the attack.For the first time, Israel bombarded the ports of Beirut and Tripoli in the north, security sources and witnesses said. Shortly after, Israeli warships bombarded Beirut's lighthouse and two ports in Christian areas north of the capital, a Lebanese security source said. SYRIAN-LEBANESE BORDERIsrael's campaign in Lebanon coincided with an offensive it launched in the Gaza Strip on June 28 to try to retrieve another captured soldier, halt Palestinian rocket fire and destroy institutions of the Hamas-led government. Israeli planes fired rockets near a Lebanese-Syrian border crossing, heightening fears that it could extend its campaign to Syria, which along with Iran is Hizbollah's main ally.Israel said it had attacked targets only in Lebanon. A Syrian official also said Israel had not attacked Syria. The Israeli army said it had struck about 150 targets in Lebanon so far, fewer than a dozen of them linked directly to Hizbollah. Most have hit civilian installations.The assault has choked Lebanon's economy.Israel aims not just to force Hizbollah to free the soldiers, which the Shi'ite group wants to trade for prisoners in Israel, but to destroy its ability to launch rocket attacks on northern Israel. "The best way to stop the violence is for Hizbollah to lay down its arms and to stop attacking. And therefore I call upon Syria to exert influence over Hizbollah," Bush told a joint news conference with President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Russia.The European Union, in a statement at the G8 summit, said Israel's assault on Lebanon was disproportionate. Israeli army chief Dan Halutz said on Friday more targets would be bombed as part of the effort to remove Hizbollah from the border and replace it with a force answering to the Lebanese government. LACKS UNITYThe Beirut government, led by an anti-Syrian coalition, lacks the unity and firepower to disarm Hizbollah, the only Lebanese faction to keep its guns after the 1975-90 civil war. After Israel quit Lebanon in 2000, Hizbollah confined its attacks mainly to a disputed border area, but Wednesday's bold raid shattered tacit rules that had limited frontier violence.The Israeli military said it had recovered the body of one of four sailors missing from a warship struck by Hizbollah off Beirut on Friday evening. A military source said Hizbollah had fired an Iranian-made missile at the vessel. Hizbollah announced one of its fighters had been killed, only the second such death it has announced this week. In Gaza, Israeli aircraft attacked the Palestinian Economy Ministry and a house where a Hamas militant was killed and eight people were wounded. Israel has killed about 85 Palestinians, around half of them militants since the offensive was launched.(Additional reporting by Nadim Ladki, Alaa Shahine, Lin Noueihed; Khaled Yaacoub Oweis in Damascus; Jerusalem bureau)Copyright 2006 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13996.htm 25 civilian Lebanese die in fresh Israeli raidsIsraeli warplanes have killed at least 25 civilians and wounded 33 others in a series of new air attacks on southern Lebanon. 07/16/06 "Aljazeera" -- -- One air strike killed at least 10 people in the coastal city of Tyre on Sunday evening. Another raid destroyed several houses near the Israeli border and killed at least 16 civilians. The latest deaths mean that Israel's offensive against Hezbollah and Lebanon has killed at least 130 people since Wednesday. Most of the civilian victims of today's attacks died when their homes were struck by Israeli bombs or missiles, Lebanese police said.EscalationEarlier Hezbollah killed eight Israeli civilians and wounded a dozen more when it fired 20 long-range missiles at Israel's northern city of Haifa on Sunday morning. Following the attack, Israel warned Lebanese civilians to evacuate the border areas, saying that it would take unilateral military action to stop Hezbollah from carrying out more rocket attacks. "We asked people in seven villages to evacuate the villages for their own safety since we will be operating in those areas," said an Israeli army spokesman. A few hours after issuing the warning, Israeli warplanes struck at several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Afterwards, in the village of Aabba, near Nabatiyeh, around 70 km (40 miles) south of the capital, eight bodies were extracted from the debris of two joining houses. Rescue workers said efforts to reach the other bodies were hampered by ongoing bombing raids in the area.In Nabatiyeh Israeli helicopters destroyed a two-storey house, killing three people and wounding 11 others, including three young children, police said. Four civilians were killed and 10 others hurt when their home in the village of Burj Shemali was also hit.Israel's strategyIsrael's minister for internal security, Avi Dichter said the raids aimed to put pressure on Lebanon's government to act against Hezbollah. "Tens of thousands of Lebanese who will flee towards the north will create the right pressure on Hezbollah," Dichter told ministers during Israel's weekly cabinet meeting, AFP reported.The latest air strikes come after five days of Israeli attacks against Lebanese infrastructure including bridges, roads and the country's only international airport in Beirut. The Israeli army has also said that its special forces are operating on the ground in Lebanon, in conjunction with air and sea forces.http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14009.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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