ELEVEN children and seven adults were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, their bodies consumed by flames when an Israeli warplane opened fire on the convoy they were in, UN peacekeepers and hospital sources said. Their charred remains were extracted from the wreckage of the minibus and car they were travelling in and taken to hospital.
A doctor, Ali Zeineddine, said they were burned alive.
"It is very difficult to identify the bodies or to distinguish between girls or boys, as the 18 victims perished from the fire triggered by incendiary shells. They grilled," he said.
They had been among residents fleeing villages close to the Israeli border and were killed when missiles struck a car and a minibus near Shamaa, hospital sources said. The children were aged between 7 and 12.
An officer with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), who was involved in the evacuation operation, told AFP that his team removed most of the burnt bodies.
"Some of them were thrown on olive trees and even on haystacks," said the officer, who declined to be named.
An AFP correspondent saw the blackened bodies of five of those killed, a father and his four children, at the hospital in Tyre.
The father of two of the other children killed, Mahmoud Ghannam, 55, who was not with the targeted convoy, broke down when he arrived at the hospital.
"My God, my God. I can't make out the faces of my children. They are burnt black... Which ones are my children?" he cried, repeatedly hitting his head with his hands.
Well, like this, of course:
4 posted on 07/15/2006 2:26:07 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Famous last words: "what does Ibtz mean?")
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To: yankeedame
kill'em all. let God sort'em out.
10 posted on 07/15/2006 2:31:49 PM PDT by pipecorp (Al Lahsucks coxswain hell)
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To: nikos1121
Yeah, they died, must have not read the leaflets.
13 posted on 07/15/2006 2:33:31 PM PDT by bybybill (`IF THE RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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To: yankeedame
I also have this super secret intelligence. Israel plans to attack all the puppy dog shelters in round 2 of the bombings.
15 posted on 07/15/2006 2:34:23 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: LibFreeUSA
War is hell for the civilian population. Especially those on the enemy side.
Yep! Sure is. I'll bet just yesterday these "grilled" civilians were cheering on their Hezbollah buddies as Katyusha rockets were fired into Israel.
16 posted on 07/15/2006 2:35:33 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: yankeedame
GOOD.
26 posted on 07/15/2006 2:43:31 PM PDT by pleikumud
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37 posted on 07/15/2006 2:48:42 PM PDT by raygun (Give the Dog a Timmy.)
Update: Here's more love for the children from Raptureland:
To: raygun
We need to make the bomblets that are packed into standard Cluster bombs smaller. No need to be wasteful. The environment and all that.
57 posted on 07/15/2006 3:41:07 PM PDT by Leisler (Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.)
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To: yankeedame
Didn't take these Jihadi cowards long to go from "open war" to crying for the cameras. Don't stop untill there's nothing left but vapors.
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_oct2001/Jihad.jpg
63 posted on 07/15/2006 3:57:35 PM PDT by RasterMaster
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To: grey_whiskers
Hold up those babies up.....and cry to the sky!......(but remember to take the suicide trainng belt off first!)
71 posted on 07/15/2006 4:27:45 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: mother22wife21
To quote Tom Quick, Avenger of the Delaware, following dashing the head of an Indian baby on a rock, "From nits come lice".
74 posted on 07/15/2006 4:30:30 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: yankeedame
How can they shoot women and children?
You don't lead they as much. (Full Metal Jacket 1987)
79 posted on 07/15/2006 5:28:42 PM PDT by bmwcyle
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To: yankeedame
boo friggin hoo.
just eliminating future terrorists IMO.
83 posted on 07/15/2006 5:40:34 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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"ELEVEN children and seven adults were killed"
eleven kids and seven wives... must be the family of the imam.
111 posted on 07/15/2006 9:49:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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