July 30, 2006


From 1 to 3.30 am this morning, US-funded, US-supplied Israeli bombs were bombing Qana, the same village in which the Israeli committed the 1996 massacre, killing 103 civilians in a UN camp. They bombed, this time, a residential apartment building, far from the road, in a fully residential area, in Qana,

This morning, the Israelis destroyed this 3-story apartment building, in which - at least - 53 civilians were seeking refuge.

26 children. 26 children killed. What was their crime?

No one was able to come to the bombed site until 8 am this morning.

As the Lebanese civil defense forces are attempting to remove the bodies, the Israeli planes continue to hover and continue to bomb the roads.

Among the bodies of the killed that was removed was a woman, martyred, with her child on her arm.

Among the bodies that have been removed was a 2-year-old child.

Because of the bombing, the ongoing bombing, because of the destroyed roads and the consequent lack of necessary equipment, the Lebanese civil defense forces have been forced to leave the bodies, and possibly the wounded, in the rubble, as is the case, all too often, in this terrorist war.

A woman, whose uncles and cousins were killed in this attack, screamed her support to the resistance and her belief in resilience.

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For 18 days, this village has been besieged. And now this.

Who will the Israelis massacre next?
Will the US press even report this massacre? Will they present this atrocity as an act of 'self defense' on behalf of the Israelis?

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My tears are dry.

-Rania Masri
El Koura, Lebanon