Hundreds dying in Lebanon as Israel seeks to destroy the country and Hizbullah

“Israel’s war strategy, backed by the US and European governments, is clear: destruction of Lebanon’s infrastructure and killing of a large number of civilians in hopes of turning the survivors against Hizbullah. General Dan Halutz, Israel’s military chief, declared that he would turn the clock in Lebanon back by 20 years unless Hizbullah were disarmed. This is the classic definition of terrorism.”

by Zafar Bangash
August 3, 2006
Media Monitors Network

Since launching its murderous assault on Lebanon on July 12, Israel has destroyed 55 bridges, ripped up almost all the major roads in Lebanon, blasted scores of apartment buildings, and bombed Beirut’s brand-new $600-million international airport, a power plant, milk factories, grain warehouses and hundreds of homes of the Lebanese: all ostensibly to “expel” Hizbullah, the Islamic resistance movement, from Southern Lebanon. Instead, more than 750,000 people have been displaced from their homes (as of July 25); this figure is likely to exceed a million soon: one third of Lebanon’s total population, as Israeli air strikes against civilian targets continue.

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