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Titolo: Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 41 people (Reuters)

Un buon riassunto della matrice di eventi di oggi. Miei asterischi sulla 
situazione dei civili libanesi.
Am.
 Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 41 people
By Lin Noueihed  59 minutes ago
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed 41 people across Lebanon on 
Monday, including 10 civilians hit on a southern bridge, on the sixth 
day of a bombardment that has wreaked the heaviest destruction in 
Lebanon for over 20 years.
Rescuers also pulled nine bodies from the wreckage of a building in the 
southern city of Tire that was bombed on Sunday, raising the death toll 
since Israel's offensive began above 200.
The fighting was triggered when Hizbollah, the guerrilla group which is 
backed by Syria and Iran and is part of Lebanon's government, seized two 
Israeli soldiers and killed eight in a cross-border raid on northern 
Israel on Wednesday.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Security Council members would 
start work on a detailed agreement on deploying a multinational security 
force to south Lebanon.
But the United States gave only a guarded welcome to the proposal and 
Israel said it was too premature. "We're at the stage where we want to 
be sure that Hizbollah is not deployed at our northern border," 
government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said.
A U.N. team sent to Lebanon to seek a solution to the fighting said it 
had made a promising start but that more diplomacy was needed before 
there could be any optimism.
Israeli planes hit coastal targets in the north and south, struck Beirut 
and damaged homes in the east belonging to members of Hizbollah, which 
fired more rockets deep into Israel.
Three Israeli tanks briefly crossed a few hundred meters (yards) into 
Lebanese territory on Monday afternoon, a U.N. source said, following a 
similar incursion overnight in which Israel said Hizbollah positions 
were destroyed.
Lebanese televisions stations showed burning debris falling over Beirut 
and said an Israeli plane had been shot down. Israeli Defense Minister 
Amir Peretz said no jet or helicopter had been lost but an unmanned 
drone may have been downed.
"I can't believe they are doing all this for two captives. This is just 
an excuse," said Ali Sharara, 21, who fled his home in south Beirut to 
sleep in a city park for the last two nights.
Israeli Army Radio, quoting a top officer, said the country would 
enforce a one-km (half-mile) "free-fire" zone to bar Hizbollah from the 
border, without keeping troops on the ground.
CASUALTIES MOUNT
Israel's campaign has killed 203 people, all but 13 of them civilians, 
and wounded more than 500.
Twenty-four Israelis have been killed in the fighting, including 12 
civilians hit in rocket attacks.
Israeli raids on Monday destroyed two army posts on the northern 
Lebanese coast, killing at least six Lebanese soldiers, and damaged the 
homes of Hizbollah officials in eastern Lebanon. Eleven people were 
killed in more than 60 strikes.
*****Several blasts rocked Beirut at dawn and smoke rose from a blazing 
fuel depot. Civilian installations, petrol stations and factories 
elsewhere were also hit, security sources said.
U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland said he feared a 
humanitarian crisis, citing the impact of power cuts and the bombing of 
water, sewage and health installations.******
Beirut's stock market remained closed after falling 14 percent last week 
due to the violence, which has also affected world currency markets and 
pushed oil prices to record levels.
The commander-in-chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, among Hizbollah's 
closest allies, said Israel could end the conflict by agreeing to a 
prisoner swap proposed by the Lebanese group.
Israel is demanding the disarming of Hizbollah in line with U.N. 
resolutions -- a task beyond the fragile Beirut government.
Hizbollah launched rocket attacks on Haifa on Sunday, killing eight 
people in its deadliest strike on Israel.
The group said it fired dozens more rockets at Haifa on Monday. A 
three-storey building in the city collapsed, wounding two people, medics 
said. Israel closed Haifa's port.
France, the United States, Britain and a host of other nations scrambled 
to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon.
Israel's campaign in Lebanon followed the launch of its offensive in the 
Gaza Strip on June 28 to try to retrieve another captured soldier and 
halt Palestinian rocket fire.
Air strikes on Monday flattened the eight-storey Palestinian Foreign 
Ministry building in Gaza City and gutted the offices of a Hamas-led 
force in the northern Gaza Strip.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian gunmen ambushed a group of 
Israeli troops, killing one and wounding six others in the city of 
Nablus, witnesses and military sources said.
(Additional reporting by Jerusalem bureau, Nadim Ladki, Alaa Shahine and 
Laila Bassam)

of water, sewage and health installations.******
Di quali "water, sewage and health installations" starebbe cianciando?
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Mandagli una letterina Grunfete-Grunfete... A naso direi che una volta 
che colpisci le centrali elettriche tutto il resto crolla rapidamente...
Am.

il resto crolla rapidamente...
Certo, certo...
*pat pat*
-Stefano

 situazione dei civili libanesi.
Mi perdonerai se mi aggancio al tuo post.
Ora, siamo in parecchi a ritenere che la risposta militare di Israele
era sacrosanta, in linea di principio..
Personalmente, ed anche qui non sono il solo, ritengo che colpire
pesantemente le infrastrutture libanesi sia errato.
Mi sfugge poi il senso tattico e strategico di una serie di attacchi nel
nord del Libano, ma qui magari c'è qualcosa che mi sfugge.
Come se non bastasse, il munero di casualties inizia a farsi veramente
drammatico.
La domanda ai filoisraeliani ad oltranza è: siamo proprio sicuri che va
tutto bene così?

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temo purtroppo che sia una escalation prevista, voluta e concordata
per forzare la mano nella questione Iraniana e coinvolgere la SIria,
note "forze del male", i cattivi insomma sulla lista.
Quello che preoccupa comunque è l'intepretazione manichea dei media in
"buoni" e "cattivi"  che tende a giustificare qualsiasi reazione pur
sanguinosa che sia.

whiplash ha scritto:
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ma che risposta ti aspetti da chi fa il negazionista dei crimini di
Israele come tb e la sua corte dei miracoli?
la domanda da porsi ora e':  quale e' il vero obiettivo di IL con questa
coventrizzazione del Libano? provocare la Siria? 
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 coventrizzazione del Libano? 
Quella di Ahma suona meglio.
Forse perché non č infilata nell'organo del pensiero di un somaro.
Tb

 Quella 
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tiè sollazzati con questa "bella" notizia novello OTTO RASCH ungherese
Libano: il 50% dele vittime sono bambini 
Metà delle vittime degli scontri in medio oriente sarebbero bambini. E'
Save the children, l'associazione internazionale che difende i diritti
dell'infanzia, a lanciare l'allarme Medio Oriente: "Organizzazioni partner
di Save the children, in Libano, sostengono che in alcuni attacchi, almeno
il 50% di morti e feriti sono bambini, così come la maggior parte degli
sfollati a seguito dei combattimenti, sono minori". I bambini, spiega Save
the children, "stanno subendo le conseguenze più pesanti della crisi: sia
in Libano che a Gaza si ritrovano intrappolati in zone dove mancano
ospedali, assistenza sanitaria e acqua potabile".
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> > coventrizzazione del Libano?
Sempre quella trombetta iraniana, tsk tsk.
Tb 

Tonibaruch ha scritto:
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tiè sollazzati con questa "bella" notizia novello OTTO RASCH ungherese
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 coventrizzazione del Libano? provocare la Siria?
Come no? Bel rovesciamento della cronologia dei fatti da parte di uno 
che fa della disinformazione il suo hobby da politico fallito...
Am.