World-News

Independent [UK]
by Patrick Cockburn

09/17/06

The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli artillery during the last three days of the conflict kill four people in southern Lebanon and wound many more. The casualty figures will rise sharply in the next month as villagers begin the harvest, picking olives from trees whose leaves and branches hide bombs that explode at the smallest movement. Lebanon's farmers are caught in a deadly dilemma: to risk the harvest, or to leave the produce on which they depend to rot in the fields...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1616665.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom 215,413 are still homeless. The damage amounts to more than £2.6bn. Exactly one month after it ended, a Foreign Office minister admits that Tony Blair should have called for a ceasefire.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1578727.ece


From Information Clearing House

http://counterpunch.com/lamb09142006.html


From Information Clearing House

"What we did was insane and monstrous; we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war. In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, widely forbidden by international law.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091206C.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0909-26.htm


Informant: binstock