Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Qana in ruins

Whatever happened, whatever the rhetoric coming from both sides, this is what's left of part of Qana after this past weekend's Israeli bombing.

You can find more photos at the BBC here.


Haaretz has an update:

Additional questions arose yesterday about the Israel Air Force's strike on a building in Qana on Sunday, even as the number of fatalities in the incident appeared to be much lower than originally published.

The Red Cross announced yesterday that 28 bodies, including those of 19 children, had been found at the site. Additional bodies are expected to be found over the coming days.

Regarding the IAF strike itself, it remains unclear at this stage why that specific house, which was located at the northern edge of Qana, was targeted. The Israel Defense Forces' inquiry has yet to establish a connection between residents of the building and Hezbollah operatives who were launching rockets at Israel from the area of the village. The IDF believed the building to be empty, and therefore bombed it.

IDF sources said yesterday, however, that the investigation into the incident was still ongoing. The sources added that a large number of Katyusha rockets had been fired at Israel from the area of Qana.

An investigation -- a credible one -- is crucial. For now, this looks very bad for Israel.

posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at 12:18 AM

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1 Comments:

  • Of course it looks bad for Israel - that was the point of using apartment buildings as launch pads.

    I'm not so hard hearted as to diminish the death of children, but when someone takes a hostage and the hostage is killed in the process, that person is always considered guilty of the death.

    We've seen infrared photos of rockets being launched only yards away from the building and there can't be anyone who doesn't know that the technique is always to hide behind civilians so as to maximize the death of innocents. Unfortunately there are those who think it so important to the cause of a Jew free Palestine that any number of civlian deaths is not only acceptible, but to be desired. There are also those who are relieved to have such things to mask their otherwise motivated dislike of Israel and Jews.

    That few of us made a fuss about the Hutus,lends weight to the argument in my opinion.

    By Blogger Capt. Fogg, at 10:54 AM  

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