Israeli airstrikes murdered 40 civilians

The Israeli campaign of genocide continues in Lebanon, with the last air strike killing 40 civilians including women. An air strike hit a farm near Qaa in Lebanon, close to the Syrian border in the Bekaa Valley. 33 farm workers, mostly Syrian Kurds, were loading plums and peaches on to trucks, when the Israeli bombs dropped on them. 20 others were wounded.

The Israeli army spokesman claimed the air strikes in the Qaa area targeted two buildings which its military intelligence said were Hezbollah's weapon stores. But television footage showed bodies of farm workers lined up near the ruins of a small structure in fruit groves, with fruit baskets strewn nearby.

This has been a typical Israeli military lie, after killing innocent civilians. They would always claimed, as they did in Qana, that the Hezbollah either had arms at the devastated location or were hiding among the civilians. It's not unlike the American lies in Iraq and Afghanistan that their military had killed insurgent 'suspects' - meaning they have no proof or evidence other than the convenient word of 'suspects' to excuse their wilful and callous killings of innocent civilians.

It was one of the deadliest air strikes in 24 days of war. But another air strike on a house in the front-line Taibeh village in southern Lebanon also killed seven civilians and wounded 10. News source says civilians were sheltering in the house during fierce battles. But I am sure the Israelis would be able to aver Hezbollah was hiding there or there was a WMD factory.

In retaliation, Hezbollah fired several longer range rockets which landed in or near the Israeli city of Hadera, about 80 kilometres from the Lebanese border. This has been the deepest rocket attack of the war so far. While no report of its effect is still available , one thing the rocket attack has done is to prove Ehud Olmert’s boast of having destroyed Hezbollah’s rocket force as false.

But to compound the difficulties of UN relief aid efforts, Israeli aircraft have deliberately destroyed four bridges on the main coastal highway north of Beirut, which are the main lifelines for aid to Lebanon. The unwarranted destruction has severely disrupted efforts to aid civilians displaced or trapped by the conflict in Lebanon.

UN refugee agency spokeswoman Astrid van Genderen Stort said the destruction represents a major setback for the UN because it used the highways to move staff and supplies into the country. The UN World Food Program has also called off planned convoys to the southern port city of Tyre after air raids on a Beirut suburb prevented drivers from reaching the assembly point.

This is malicious vindictive genocide of the Lebanese people by an evil Israeli regime supported by another evil regime in Washington. The USA has brought death to the Middle East and many parts of the world.

Even as Lebanese civilians are killed by America’s hatchet man in the region, more Iraqis are killed everyday in neighbouring Iraq. US generals in Iraq have conceded that civil war is a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’, meaning more troubled times ahead for ordinary Iraqis, thanks to the Axis of Evil of Washington, London and Tel Aviv.

Where America is involved in the Middle East, death for the locals is a virtual certainty.