34 youths among 56 dead in Israeli strike

THIS PROVES WHY WAR IS TRUELY NOT EFFECTIVE. ALL THIS IS DOING IS CAUSING MORE ARABS AND LEBANESE TO JOIN THE RANKS OF TERRORIST GROUPS TO DEFEND THERE PEOPLE, WHERE THE GOVT, ARMY AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNTITY(US) HAVE FAILED. THIS ALSO SHOW THE TACTIC BY MILITARIES TO USE PLANES TO TARGET PEOPLE IN CIVILLIAN NEIGHBORHOODS INSTEAD OF USING GROUND TROOPS. ISREAL WHEN ON THE GROUND IS FINDING THEMSELVES OUT MATCHED SO THEY HOP IN THEIR PLANES AND DROP BOMBS FROM MILES UP WHILE SITTING BACK AND WATCHING THE CARNAGE. THEN, THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO SAY WELL HEZBOLLA IS THERE SO WE HAVE TO BOMB AND IF CHILDREN GET KILLED THAT IS PART OF WAR.



By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago

Israeli missiles hit several buildings in a southern Lebanon village as people slept Sunday, killing at least 56, most of them children, in the deadliest attack in 19 days of fighting.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed "great sorrow" for the airstrikes but blamed Hezbollah guerrillas for using the area to launch rockets at Israel.

The Lebanese Red Cross said the airstrike in Qana, in which at least 34 children were killed, pushed the overall Lebanese death toll to more than 500. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice postponed a visit to Lebanon in a setback for diplomatic efforts to end hostilities.

Infuriated Lebanese officials said they had asked Rice to postpone the visit after Israel's missile strike. But Rice said she called Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to say she would postpone the trip, and that she had work to do in Jerusalem to end the fighting.

Saniora asked U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to hold an emergency Security Council meeting to arrange for an immediate cease-fire after the Qana strike.