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Titolo: Israeli rights group urges PM to order probe of Qana attack

notate dove l'articolista afferma che l'IDF non ha prove che sono stati
lanciati razzi dal palazzo e non ha prove della presenza di Hezbollah, e
soprattutto "But there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the
strike."
 
sergio
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Israeli rights group urges PM to order probe of Qana attack 
 
By Yoav Stern, Yuval Yoaz and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents 
 
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel Tuesday urged Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert to establish a state commission of inquiry into the killing of
dozens of civilians in an Israeli air strike in the village of Qana in
southern Lebanon.
As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the Sunday air strike,
questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident.
It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched
from the site of the building, or the presence there of Hezbollah men at
the time.
 
The Israeli Defense Forces had said after the deadly air-strike that many
rockets had been launched from Qana. However, it changed its version on
Monday.
The site was included in an IAF plan to strike at several buildings in
proximity to a previous launching site. Similar strikes were practiced in
the past. But there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the
strike.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese Red Cross workers reported on Monday that 28
bodies, 19 of them children, were extracted from the rubble.
The count is lower than the some 60 bodies reported by news agencies,
quoting Lebanese security officials. Survivors say 60 people were in the
building at the time of the strike.
Additional bodies of civilians who died in the attack are expected to be
found in rescue operations.
Elsewhere in southern Lebanon, 49 bodies were extracted Monday from the
ruins of buildings in 10 villages. Medical sources in Lebanon say dozens
more are buried in the rubble.
Sources in the IDF said the warning pamphlets the IAF disseminated to the
villagers, calling on them to leave the area, were dropped several days
before the strike, and not over the weekend.
The IAF does not have a way to verify whether villages have been vacated,
or whether civilians remain hidden in bomb-shelters in villages otherwise
believed to have been vacated, the sources said.
Paratroopers who fought in Bint Jbail last week said they noticed
civilians hiding in the rubble while the fierce battle with the Hezbollah
men was taking place.
The IDF account and survivors' accounts suggest two contradictory versions
of the Qana deaths. The IDF said there is an unexplained gap of about
seven hours between the IAF strike and the first report that the building
had collapsed. Villagers' accounts say only 10 minutes went by between the
strike and the collapse.
The survivors say rescue teams arrived only in the morning, as night
conditions made the rescue mission difficult. The Red Cross in Tyre
received a call for help only in the morning, explaining their late
arrival.
Sami Yazbek, chief of the Tyre Red Cross department, said his office
received a call only at 7 A.M. The ambulances were further slowed by the
bombed roads leading to Qana.
The media heard of the bombing first at 8 A.M. The foreign press quotes
Lebanese sources explaining the late announcement, saying the electricity
and phones in the village of Qana were almost entirely cut-off by IAF
attacks.
An IAF investigation into the bombing is underway.
The IAF admits the village was struck three times between Saturday night
and Sunday morning. Two bombs were dropped on the building in the first
strike. Channel 10, however, said on Monday that the initial investigation
shows the bombs did not immediately explode, and an explosion in the early
morning explains the casualties.
There is no explanation for the second explosion, and it is not clear
whether the bomb was moved, or whether Hezbollah ammunition stored in the
building caused the explosion.
Civilians continued their to leave their homes en masse in southern 
Lebanon on Monday, taking advantage of the temporary slow-down in the
fighting, imposed on the IAF after the Qana attack.
The United Nations and the Red Cross delivered emergency assistance to
villages in the south on Monday. The UN also delivered food and medical
equipment to Qana residents.
 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/745185.html
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 "But there were no rocket launches from Qana on the day of the strike."
Vorrei sottolineare "on the day of the strike".
Perché bisogna prenderli in flagranza?