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Killing fields of Lebanon
Innocent Lebanese civilians, including women and children, continued to bear the brunt of relentless Israeli bombardment yesterday for the fourth consecutive day.
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- Published: 23:33 May 3, 2009
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Dubai: Innocent Lebanese civilians, including women and children, continued to bear the brunt of relentless Israeli bombardment yesterday for the fourth consecutive day.
Israel's bombing of Lebanese roads, bridges, ports and airports, as well as Hezbollah targets, is its most destructive onslaught since a 1982 invasion to expel Palestinian forces.
At least 32 civilians were killed yesterday. Twenty of them, including 15 children, were burnt alive when missiles from an Israeli helicopter gunship slammed into a convoy of residents fleeing border villages in south Lebanon, UN and hospital sources were quoted as saying.
Another seven people were killed in raids against bridges and petrol stations in eastern and southern Lebanon, bringing the death toll to 99.
Defiant Hezbollah fighters kept up their rocket attacks on northern Israeli towns, killing four Israelis and inflicting material damages in the town of Tiberias.
Hezbollah has denied claims made on Israeli television that its leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrallah was injured in an airstrike on Saturday night.
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The confrontation drew out divisions among Arab countries and the international community.
During an emergency summit in Cairo of Arab foreign ministers, Saudi Arabia and Syria gave contradicting statements.
While Riyadh described Hezbollah actions as "inappropriate and irresponsible," Damascus termed them "legitimate acts," even as Arab League chief Amr Mousa declared the Middle East peace process as dead.
World leaders gathering for the G-8 summit were also divided over the war on Lebanon.
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