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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (74367)	7/27/2006 2:57:55 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361108

Just went to a Lebanon Paper via Yahoo news for a different slant.. Bolding mine.. Correction.. Arab/American paper I think.. dailystar.com.lb Rescuers: Many dead have yet to be counted By Rym Ghazal Daily Star staff Thursday, July 27, 2006 TYRE: The number of fatalities from Israel's two-week bombardment of Lebanon has been "grossly underestimated," according to paramedics and emergency response crews, with some putting the true tally near 1,000. "In Tyre alone we had 125 dead and 150 missing or buried under the rubble," said Sami Yazbek, the head of Red Cross operations in this southern port town. "Those trapped under the rubble are impossible to reach due to the complete destruction of the roads in the South, so we have no choice but to presume they are dead by now." "Tyre is the least-hit area when compared with the volume of assaults in the South," Yazbek added. As Israel's massive assault on Lebanon continues, medical officials are predicting that the true number of casualties will soon be revealed as double the reported figure of 400, according to Yazbek. However, Lebanon's Civil Defense puts that number even higher, with some believing that 1,000 have been killed by the shower of bombs and shells raining down on South Lebanon for the past 14 days. "Just driving through the South, we see abandoned, burned-out cars with rotting bodies inside, but can't reach them because when we try we are shot at by Israeli planes," said Civil Defense member Abu Chadi in Tyre. "A majority of the corpses that we have handled so far have been women and children," Abu Chadi added. A refrigerated truck parked next to Tyre's government hospital contains some 20 bodies stacked roughshod in body bags. Beside the truck lie 40 freshly carved wooden coffins. "I don't know what weapons they are using, but it is leaving behind a trail of horribly mutilated bodies that are beyond recognition," Abu Chadi said. Approximately 500 civilians have been wounded over the past two weeks in Tyre and the surrounding towns, the medic said, not including Red Cross staff and local Civil Defense crews wounded on the job. dailystar.com.lb "We take a gamble with our lives every time one of our cars goes out on a rescue mission, but what can we do, just sit and do nothing?" asked Nader Joudi, one of three Red Cross medics wounded in an Israeli air strike on their ambulance in Qana during a rescue operation. Red Cross ambulances and staff have been targeted by Israeli warplanes on two separate occasions since fighting began on July 12. The first has been labeled "indirect" as an ambulance was hit as it crossed a bridge in the South, believed to be the target of the attack, while Joudi had no doubt the targeting of his vehicle in Qana was intentional. "They hit one of our cars, and then within a minute hit our other car, so it was pretty obvious the Israelis were targeting us," said Joudi, who sustained shrapnel wounds to his arm and right ear drum. "Just let us do our job for God's sake," he pleaded. "All the wounded staff is back to work, and we will keep on rescuing," he said. Ali Basma, 19, and his cousin Mohammed al-Samra, 20, were hit by an Israeli missile on Monday night as they rode a motorcycle in search of food for their families. "We were being very careful and checking the sky and listening carefully, and still we didn't see the missile coming," Basma told The Daily Star from his hospital bed in Tyre's Najim Hospital, where he is recovering from multiple fractures. "They seem to hit anything moving now," he said. Samra, struck partially deaf by the attack, had a written message for his Israeli attackers. "If you are truly the sons of Moses, then why are you killing the sons of Jesus and Mohammad?" it said.