8.03.2006

More Than 900 Lebanese Civilians Dead, More Than a Third Children

... and Israel plans to take over more of Lebanon than it did during its last occupation which ended in 2000. Here from Ha'aretz:

Israel's three-week-old offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon has killed more than 900 people and wounded 3,000, with a third of the casualties children under 12, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Thursday.

Siniora, in a video message to a summit of leaders of the Muslim world, added that a quarter of the population, or one million people, had been displaced.