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They walk past the graves
      July 30th the people died
Two days ago, driving toward the village of Qana, we saw men at work, creating neatly aligned rows of rectangular cement structures that would soon be ready for burials.
On foot, we entered Qana, thinking we should at least identify the site where a massacre had taken place when, on July 30th, an Israeli bomb hit a building that sheltered children as they slept.
It took five hours for ambulances to reach them.
Statistics differ, but the most recent Human Rights Watch report estimated that twenty-three were killed.
Turning a corner, we saw men arranging white plastic chairs for guests who came to mourn with family members in the funeral tradition.
The men sat in front of one home.
Women were next door.
       Kathy Kelly       The Massacre at Qana       
          www.commondreams.org/           August 19, 2006      
Farah and I approached four women sitting quietly and tearfully in a small outdoor patio.
They invited us to sit with them.
For much of the time, we sat silently.
Each time a neighboring woman arrived, the women would stand and embrace one another tearfully.
They have borne their pain for eighteen days, since 1:00 a.m. on July 30th when the bomb slammed into the building just across the road from where we sat, the building where their children slept.
The funeral was delayed until it would be safe to bring families together and to construct the graves.
 
Loved ones
Umm Zayneb, the mother of six year old Zayneb, poured out a torrent of words, telling the details of what had happened to Zayneb and entrusting us with her views which we could only barely understand.
Our translators were next door, sitting with the men.
We could see that Umm Zayneb had suffered injuries.
Under her veil, she wore a medical hood and a thick brace encircled her neck.
She stiffly shifted her tall, slender body, unable to point across the street to what was once a building where frightened children had huddled together for shelter during the bombing.
Surveillance planes must have known that children were in the building.
Many times, in the daytime, Zaynab ran back and forth between the house and the shelter.
Umm Zaynab said we must be able to see how close she was to her home.
Yes, we could see.
We listened to the drone of an unmanned surveillance plane still crisscrossing the skies above.
Couldn’t they see?
What kind of censorship would obscure this information?
Includes 16 children's bodies
“She liked to practice English,” Umm Zaynab told us, her words turning to sobs.
“She was happy because she could say English words.”
This sentence aroused a new flood of agony.
The brace forced her to contain her shudders.
She rocked diffidently, overwhelmed with grief.
 
Sits in grave of loved one
Israel military that did killings
paid by US taxpayer
Umm Zaynab asked one of the children to bring a stack of newspapers and magazines.
“Here,” she said, carefully sorting through reports on the massacre at Qana.
“This is Zaynab.”
Photo after photo showed Zaynab held aloft, lifeless, by a strong, helmeted relief worker who shouted his shock and terrible awe.
In another, Zainab lies next to Zahara.
The force of the explosion seems to have destroyed the internal organs of the little girls, as they slept.
Their bodies are not mutilated.
Tyre, Lebanon
Six years old
Hit by US supplied missile
Attack paid for by US taxpayer
Next she placed in our hands a framed picture of Zaynab, a curly headed little girl with huge dark eyes posing seriously for the camera.
One can only imagine her smile.
“Who are the terrorists?” Umm Zayneb whispered, slowly reaching over to point at Zayneb’s picture.
Her eyes held mine as she answered her own question.
I heard her say “Bush.”
“She is saying that Zayneb and the children aren’t the terrorists,” Farah interjected, understanding more Arabic than me.
“She says the real terrorists are the ones who kill children.”
 
Quana massacres
Lebanon
Israel military that did killings paid by
US taxpayer
Cana
She didn’t want them to be excluded
Looking at the burnt and blackened hillsides throughout southern Lebanon, you can only imagine the cedar trees that only one month ago made these hills as green as the hills in Israel.
Cana.
New Testament scriptures say that Jesus spent time here.
Nearby is a small cave, reputed to mark the site of a wedding feast Jesus had attended.
A story tells of Jesus’ mother, Mary, entreating the beloved son to show concern for newly arrived wedding guests.
She identified them as people who weren’t being served.
She didn’t want them to be excluded, left out.
Who would listen to a widow’s concern?
Her son must help.
The tradition tells of a miracle, of water turned to wine.
Khiam, Lebanon
US supplied airstrikes
Paid for by US taxpayer
Qana
Who will listen to bereaved mothers entreating the heavens for an end to the hellish, fiery explosions that slaughter their children.
The facts tell of a massacre.
The astonishing technological capacity to identify.
And then to exclude the children from life itself.
A banner hangs in Qana, addressed to Condoleeza Rice.
“Rice, they will not see ‘our new Middle East.’”

Lebanon "Fog of War"

Lebanese Doctors and Civillians Speak Out against the Terrorism they are facing from Israel.
Chemical Weapons, Cluster Bombs, Massacres Shocking Documentary About the War in Lebanon and the tradgedy in Qana.
Lebanese testimonials to the war.
Doctors Speak Out Against War Crimes.
Video taken from Sky News, placed on YouTube:

Galloway wipes the floor with Sky News anchor

Sky News anchor: Joining me now is a man who’s not known for sitting on the fence.   He passionately opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he feels that Hizbullah is justified in attacking Israel.   The Respect MP for Bethnel Green is in our London studio.   A very good evening, uh good morning to you Mr. Galloway.   How do you JUSTIFY your support for Hizbullah and its leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah?
She might as well have punched him in the face and handed him a gun.

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He was just shooting at children to amuse himself.
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April 2004
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March 2004
A young Palestinian man hitting an Israeli teargas bomb with his shoes away from demonstrators.
Israeli occupation soldiers killed two demonstrators and injured more than a hundred of them during anti-Wall demonstrations in the West Bank.
February 2004
A Palestinian elderly woman screaming in despair, complaining to God, as an Israeli occupation army bulldozer started to prepare her land for the construction of the separation wall in the village of Dair Qidees, near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
January 2004
Israeli occupation soldiers guarding bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes.
A Palestinian man, perhaps who has lived in one of the homes, sits on the ground watching, his small daughters around him.
December 2003
Palestinian boys cry over the body of their father.
8 Palestinians were killed and 40 were injured,in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
Many homes were destroyed during a savage Israeli occupation raid on the refugee camp on Tuesday.
November 2003
A Palestinian family in Jenin, moments before the Israeli occupation forces blew up their home.
October 2003
Tom Hurndall, the peace activist who was shot by Israeli occupation forces while helping to shield some Palestinian children, is declared to be brain dead.
Two Palestinian children were among about 100 Palestinian civilians injured in the Israeli air raids on Gaza Strip, which also resulted in killing 10 civilians.
September 2003
See the home blow up.
Blowing up more Palestinian homes as a collective punishment is a daily Israeli practice (paid for by US money) to control Palestinians under occupation.
The life and death of Kamala Sawalha
A student leaves her house every night, leaving her two young children at home, spends the next several hours traveling by taxi and on foot to get to the university in the neighboring town — just 15 minutes away.
Kamala wanted very badly to study — otherwise, it would be hard to understand the sacrifice she made for it.
To get up before dawn every morning, to leave the babies with their grandmother, to spend hours on the road in the heat and cold, even when pregnant, in order to get to the campus on time; to risk being shot or subjected to endless humiliations around every turn, and then to travel the whole way back — in a taxi where possible and on foot where necessary....
“Suddenly we were facing the soldiers,” he recounts. The jeep was parked on the left side of the road and its right door was open. Kamala let out a long scream. It was the last sound she would ever make.
At 11:30 A.M., they buried Kamala Sawalha in the town cemetery.
Children trying to commit suicide
Now the landscape itself has changed
More Palestinian mothers are giving birth at home because they dare not risk ride to hospital.
Punching an arab in the face.
The father went through it and now the son is going through it and no one talks about it around the dinner table.
Furer is certain that what happened to him is not at all unique.
Here he was — a creative, sensitive graduate of the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, who became an animal at the checkpoint, a violent sadist who beat up Palestinians because they didn’t show him the proper courtesy, who shot out tires of cars because their owners were playing the radio too loud, who abused a retarded teenage boy lying handcuffed on the floor of the Jeep, just because he had to take his anger out somehow.
 
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