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The Lebanon
ISRAEL'S DEVASTATION OF LEBANON - The Aftermath
2006 ISRAEL'S USE OF CLUSTER BOMBS ON CIVILIAN AREAS
Tens of thousands of un-exploded bomblets taking their daily toll of mostly children
Is Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert guilty of war crimes?
Will international justice always be the prerogative of the powerful?
Did Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters respond proportionally?
GAZA /PALESTINE - Divide and Israel Rules
Heavy fighting between Hamas and Fatah factions overshadow prospects for a united Palestine.
Israel's Destruction of Lebanon Infrastructure and use of Cluster Bombs in Civilian Areas.
Wanton acts must surely constitute war crimes?
Urgent need for full UN Investigation
A good case for UN Criminal Inditements against Israeli leadership.
LEBANON: Between 12 July and 14 August 2006, the Israeli onslaught by air, sea, and land based artillery
throughout Lebanon, was totally disproportionate to any original provocation, and constituted
a deliberate attack on the civilian infrastructure and life support systems.
The Israeli Air Force carried out over 7,000 air strikes while the Israeli Navy carried out some
2,500 bombardments.
Lebanon's recorded death tool was around 1,200, nearly all civilians including some 400 children.
At least some 4,000 civilians were recorded injured. Nearly 100,000 people were displaced.
Civilian infrastructure targeted by Israel included airfields, hospitals, schools, power plants,
water provision, roads, bridges, and many residential areas, homes and businesses. The attacks
on fuel storage facilities have polluted the coastline and produced ecological disaster.
This vicious onslaught can only be described as a deliberate and brutal collective punishment of
an entire population, in order to try to discredit the Hezbollah fighters.
It must be remembered that before the war, and during 6 years of relative peace, only 10 small
rockets had been fired into Northern Israel by Hezbollah, with no significant damage reported
(Source IDF). Further there had developed an unofficial 'prisoner exchange' procedure between
Israel's IDF and Hezbollah.
The taking of the two Israeli soldiers was in all probability, intended to instigate such an exchange.
However Israel seized upon the incident as a pretext for some pre-arranged military plan against
Lebanon and beyond by implication. President George W Bush had given Israel the go ahead.
