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Dirty bandages hid the worst of 8-year-old Zainab Jawad’s swollen, bloodied nose Monday. Her arm, fractured in two places, was strapped to her chest. Stretched out on a bed at Najem Hospital, Zainab squeezed her brown eyes shut as memories of the attack flooded back, some of her words muffled as she fought sobs. A day earlier, Israeli bombs destroyed her family’s home in the southern village of Ayta Chaeb. Then rockets slammed into the family’s car as they fled.
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“Severe measures”
Lebanese complain Israelis using banned weapons
Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, which is named for his family, said patients admitted Sunday were burn cases that resulted from Israeli phosphorus incendiary weapons. The Geneva Conventions ban using white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations, and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas. The Israeli military said its use of weapons “conforms with international law” and it investigates claims of violations “based on the information provided.”
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Lebanese Hospital Struggles With Wounded
Patients admitted Sunday had burns from phosphorous incendiary weapons
Dirty bandages hid the worst of 8-year-old Zainab Jawad’s swollen, bloodied nose Monday. Her arm was strapped to her chest and fractured in two places. Stretched out on a bed a Najem Hospital, Zainab squeezed shut her brown eyes as memories of the attack flooded back, some of her words muffled as she fought sobs.
A day earlier, Israeli bombs destroyed her family’s home in the southern village of Ayta Chaeb. Then rockets slammed into the car as they fled. Jawad Najem, a surgeon at the hospital, said patients admitted Sunday had burns from phosphorous incendiary weapons used by Israel. The Geneva Conventions ban using white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas; Israel said its weapons comply with international law.
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Lebanese hospitals fill with families carrying scars of war, inside and out
Dirty bandages hid the worst of 8-year-old Zainab Jawad’s swollen, bloodied nose Monday. Her arm was strapped to her chest and fractured in two places. Stretched out on a bed at Najem Hospital, Zainab squeezed shut her brown eyes as memories of the attack flooded back, some of her words muffled as she fought sobs. A day earlier, Israeli bombs destroyed her family’s home in the southern village of Ayta Chaeb. Then rockets slammed into the car as they fled.
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Fleeing civilian vehicles hit by Israeli missiles
WITH an expression of utmost calm on her blood-masked face, the woman allowed herself to be gently lowered from the minibus into the waiting arms of two Lebanese Red Cross volunteers. The rescue workers had extracted her through a jagged hole in the roof of the crumpled bus, created by a missile fired minutes earlier by an Israeli helicopter that had blasted the vehicle off the road. Left behind in the vehicle, slumped over each other and soaked in blood, were the bodies of three people.
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LEBANON: Children traumatised by attacks
Inaam Haidar and her twin children, Hadi and Hiba, aged eight, were trapped in a village south of Beirut for 10 days after the Israeli attacks on Lebanon started on 12 July. They were spending their summer holiday at their grandmother’s house in the mountains, when Israeli planes dropped bombs on the area, isolating the village. “We were living in fear as the bombs just whistled over our house and exploded nearby,” says Haidar. “The Israeli planes kept going over the town and dropping bombs, and my children kept crying all the time. My mother is an old woman and she is sick.”
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As Rice arrives, Olmert threatens ‘severe measures’
Israel is determined to keep fighting Hizbollah and will take “severe measures” against the Lebanese guerrillas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said today, indicating there will be no let-up in Israel’s two-week military offensive.
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Israeli bombs kill UN observers
Israeli embassy officials in Australia have called the deaths of at least two UN peacekeepers in Lebanon a tragedy, but have denied the Israeli strike that killed them was intentional.
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Rice proposes international forces in Lebanon
40,000 NATO Troops to Occupy Southern Lebanon
The plan initially would involve putting an international force of up to 10,000 Turkish and Egyptian troops under a NATO or U.N. commander into southern Lebanon following a cease-fire. That force ultimately would be replaced by another international force of up to 30,000 troops that would help the Lebanese government regain control over the southern part of the country, where the Shiite militia Hezbollah now dominates.
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Israel widens control of southern Lebanon
Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold Tuesday and widened their foothold in southern Lebanon, as Israeli bombs killed six people in a south Lebanon town and three U.N. observers in a border outpost with another feared dead. Two weeks into the war, a senior Hezbollah leader said the guerrillas had not expected such an Israeli onslaught when they snatched two Israeli soldiers July 12.
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Lieberman Gets Pro-Israel Groups’ Support
“Joe Lieberman, without exception is the No.1 pro-Israel advocate and leader in Congress.”
Pro-Israel groups, afraid of losing one of their staunchest supporters in Congress, are pouring money into beleaguered Sen. Joe Lieberman’s campaign as he tries to fend off a tougher-than-expected primary challenge.
The three-term lawmaker is struggling to dispatch millionaire businessman Ned Lamont in the Aug. 8 primary. Lamont’s fierce criticism of Lieberman’s backing of the Iraq war and perceived closeness to President Bush has won him followers among hard-core Democrats.
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Lieberman Praises Bush
Any criticism of Bush vis-à-vis Israel would be “unjustified.”
Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman took the unusual step of praising President Bush while chiding John Kerry during a campaign stop in Florida Wednesday. Lieberman, with just three weeks left before the election, praised Bush strongly for his support of Israel, America’s lone democratic ally in the Mid-East. “We are dealing with a president who’s had a record of strong, consistent support for Israel. You can’t say otherwise,” Lieberman told an audience of 600 near Delray Beach, Fla, the Palm Beach Post reported in editions Thursday. Lieberman also added that any criticism of Bush vis-à-vis Israel would be “unjustified.”
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