View a photo essay of Haret Hreik from independent media activist & organizer with the Samidoun coalition, Mohammad Shublaq taken on Tuesday, 15 August 2006. Haret Hreik is a neighborhood in the southern suburb of Beirut that was most heavily targeted by Israeli air-strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs or Dahye in Arabic.
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Deliberate destruction or ‘collateral damage’?
Excerpt from Amnesty International report, “Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or “collateral damage”? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure.” Full report: www.amnesty.org.
During more than four weeks of ground and aerial bombardment of Lebanon by the Israeli armed forces, the country’s infrastructure suffered destruction on a catastrophic scale. Israeli forces pounded buildings into the ground, reducing entire neighbourhoods to rubble and turning villages and towns into ghost towns, as their inhabitants fled the bombardments. Main roads, bridges and petrol stations were blown to bits. Entire families were killed in air strikes on their homes or in their vehicles while fleeing the aerial assaults on their villages. (Lire la suite…)
The UN’s humanitarian chief has accused Israel of “completely immoral” use of cluster bombs in Lebanon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5299938.stm
UN clearance experts had so far found 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets at 359 separate sites, Jan Egeland said.
Voici une liste de toutes les résolutions du Conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU qu’Israël a ignorées et refusées de respecter. Le nombre total de résolutions défiées par Israël s’élève à 71 (en date du 7 mars 2003).
1948 – 1967
* Résolution 106 Condamne l’attaque par les forces de l’armée régulière israélienne contre les forces de l’armée régulière égyptienne le 28 février 1955. Cette attaque viole les dispositions relatives au cessez-le-feu de la résolution 54. (Lire la suite…)
Le samedi 29 juillet, le 18e jour de l’agression israélienne au Liban, Sawsan Takiyee El Deen, donna naissance à un bébé. Le lendemain, son nouveau né devint la plus jeune victime connue de l’agression israélienne…
Lundi le 24 juillet
Liban: ~14 civils tués
Parmi eux : Mohammad Ghandour, sa femme et cinq enfants sont tués quand les bombes de l’armée israélienne ont frappé leur maison dans la ville de Nabatiyeh au Sud.
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An inteview with Gilbert Achcar
August 10, 2006
Chris Spannos
This interview was produced for Redeye, Vancouver Co-op Radio, on August 5, 2006.
CS: Lebanon has been suffering Israeli military devastation since mid-July. Certainly Hezbollah had anticipated a response from Israel to the abduction of two Israeli soldiers. What do you think were Hezbollah’s political calculations and reasons for their actions?
By Amira Hass
Let us leave aside those Israelis whose ideology supports the dispossession of the Palestinian people because “God chose us.” Leave aside the judges who whitewash every military policy of killing and destruction. Leave aside the military commanders who knowingly jail an entire nation in pens surrounded by walls, fortified observation towers, machine guns, barbed wire and blinding projectors. Leave aside the ministers. All of these are not counted among the collaborators. These are the architects, the planners, the designers, the executioners. (Lire la suite…)
par Réda Benkirane
lundi 28 août 2006
La guerre d’Israël au Liban contre le Hizbollah est marquée du triple sceau de l’imprévisibilité, de la démesure et de l’impuissance. Elle indique la faillite de la sémantique et de la grille d’analyse utilisées jusqu’ici par les représentants de la communauté internationale pour lire, dire et prévenir les problèmes de la région.
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Official statement of the Bolivarian Society of Quebec [SBQ] for Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.
The Bolivarian Society of Quebec (SBQ) publicly manifests its support and its solidarity towards all the Lebanese people in this moment of hardship and strife.
The external aggression that Lebanon is suffering violates principles stated by article 2 of the United Nations Charter, particularly withregards to national sovereignty respect and non-intervention in State’s internal affairs.
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Treated like modern-day slaves, Filipina domestic workers in Lebanon have jumped off buildings to escape from Israeli bombs and abusive Lebanese employers.
by Herbert Docena
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
i Report, 27 August 2006
BEIRUT
Miramar Flores stood on the ledge of her master’s second-floor balcony. As she tried to make up her mind whether to stay on under the Israeli bombardment or to flee it may well have occurred to her that it was a choice between death and death. (Lire la suite…)
