Come and see Children covered in dust: how alike the victims of atrocities look, from Palestine to Iraq to Lebanon.

Haifa Zangana

Early on Sunday, the southern Lebanese town of Qana was revisited by the bombers of only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East. Israel. The first visit took place in April 1996, when it was the site of an Israeli bombing of a UN base that killed more than 100 civilians and injured another 100 sheltering there during Israel's Grapes of Wrath offensive, which was also aimed at destroying Hizbullah. Little has changed: the Israeli bombers, the barbarian act of systematic destruction, the killing of civilians. Eyewitnesses said the shelling on Sunday was so intense that no one could move. The strike flattened several sites on top of sleeping residents. Elderly, women and children were among those killed in the raid. Sources in the Lebanese Red Cross said as many as 50 or 60 had lost their lives. Only three people survived.

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