Monday, July 31, 2006

'Safe house' that held no refuge

Random Gallery PhotoFather & son
Father & son
Posted by Beewitch
Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Peter Wilson, Qana - The Australian News) from Lebanon.

MOHAMMED Zaatar did not celebrate yesterday's news that Israel would limit itself to land and sea attacks for two days because of the outrage over the killing of more than 50 people in a single house in the Lebanese village of Qana on Sunday.

The 48-hour suspension of Israeli air attacks would allow Zaatar and other Red Cross volunteers to look for bodies in south Lebanese towns that had previously been too dangerous to approach, he said last night -- and that was not something he was looking forward to.

On Sunday, Zaatar, a 32-year-old industrial mechanic, had been in the first group of rescue workers to arrive in Qana after an Israeli bombing raid had brought a three-storey home down on top of two extended families, including more than 30 children, who were...
Read More...

Comments: Post a Comment



<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours? Listed in LS BlogsMy GigaBlog