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"Two-year-old Karim Qobeisi is treated in hospital in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh in Lebanon, Sunday, after he was injured during an Israeli airstrike whilst in his house, according to his father who was also injured. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)"
“ . . . Israel has claimed a trophy never won before - Lebanon's spirit . . .
LEBANON has no air defences to speak of - no fighter planes or long-range surface-to-air missiles - so the Israeli Air Force can carve it up at its leisure.
The bombs come without warning, day and night, ripping through buildings, roads, offices, homes and refugee convoys.
Only afterwards do the shocked survivors hear the whisper of the jets, high above the reach of any ground fire, invisible in the summer haze.
At night you can see the fighter bombers: so confident are the pilots of their impunity that they pass over Beirut with their navigation lights on.
After four days of retaliation, the Israeli Government's tally stood at: a member of the Hezbollah militia, which started the whole business with its border raid last Wednesday, a bunch of Hezbollah offices and homes and more than 100 innocent men, women and children.
This was a reply to the deaths in action of 12 Israeli military personnel and four civilians, including a eight-year-old boy, killed by Hezbollah in subsequent exchanges of long-range fire.”