'Catastrophe' looms in Lebanon as Israel pushes offensive - Yahoo! News

Lebanon will be back in the stone age before Israel is through.

This is a crime.

Lebanon was the only real Democracy, fledgling though it might have been, among Arab lands, so Israel destroys it, no doubt, with the Bush administration nodding and winking all the way.

It does not seem to me that anyone is interested in Democracy for Arabs, just strong-men who are in league with our oil companies.

This really sucks!

'Catastrophe' looms in Lebanon as Israel pushes offensive - Yahoo! News:

"BEIRUT (AFP) - The United Nations warned of a humanitarian 'catastrophe' in Lebanon as Israel launched more deadly air attacks on the seventh day of an assault that has killed at least 245 and displaced half a million people.

Helicopters, ferries and cruise liners began taking foreign nationals to safety but Lebanese civilians remained trapped in a cycle of violence that has left them in fear of each new attack and their infrastructure in tatters.

'The situation is both alarming and catastrophic. There are about 500,000 people displaced already. The situation is extreme' the representative of the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF) in Beirut, Roberto Laurenti, told AFP.
Lebanon's grim body count continued to mount as Israeli pressed on with its campaign to defeat fighters of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, killing 28 people in attacks that flattened homes and hit an army barracks.