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- "Hizbullah rockets cannot be fired from buildings, " by Tom Clonan, Irish -Times, 31/07/2006
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-Hizbullah rockets cannot be fired from buildings
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-Tom Clonan
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-Irish Times, 31/07/2006
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-Hizbullah has fired almost 2,000 missiles into Israel over the last -fortnight, killing more than 50 Israelis and forcing almost one -million into air raid shelters. Despite this provocation, however, -Israel's response has been sharply criticised as "disproportionate"
-in many quarters. In the aftermath of the deaths of dozens of -innocent Lebanese women and children at Qana yesterday, even the US -has urged the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to modify their responses -to Hizbullah's attacks. IDF spokespeople are maintaining that -Hizbullah had been mounting missile attacks on Israeli territory from -Qana in recent days. The IDF has claimed it targeted the three-storey -house in Qana at 1.30am local time in the belief it contained a -Hizbullah "asset". Any investigation into the targeting of this house -will have to consider precisely what kind of Hizbullah "asset" could -possibly have been hidden in a modest, low-rise building among the -narrow streets of a village such as Qana.
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-The type of missiles being fired by Hizbullah at Israeli cities -cannot be fired from within houses, mosques, hospitals or even UN -facilities as has been suggested by the IDF. Due to the massive "back- -blast" caused by the rocket launchers of these missiles, they can -only be fired from open ground. To fire them from within a building -would result in the instant death of the missile crew and probable -destruction of the missile before launch. Most of the missiles are -truck-mounted and are fired - on open ground - from the backs of flat- -bedded trucks or larger four-wheel-drive vehicles. When fired, these -missiles generate an enormous flare of light, heat and sound energy - -a heat and light signature which is readily detected by IDF target- -acquisition systems. Accurate retaliatory fire can be directed at -Hizbullah launch sites by IDF aircraft and ground artillery in -seconds. Such a reaction would be considered by international -military norms to be proportionate and within the general "rules of -engagement".
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-In these circumstances, having fired their missiles, Hizbullah tends -to disperse as rapidly as possible. It is unlikely that a flat-bedded -truck with a multilaunch rocket-system mounted on it could be easily -and rapidly hidden in a village as small as Qana. Nor is it likely -that such a truck-mounted weapon or four-wheel-drive vehicle could -easily be hidden in a house such as the one targeted by the IDF -yesterday.
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-The pattern and circumstances of the attack are sinister. With no -telltale scorch marks from a Hizbullah missile launch visible near -the destroyed house, and with no Hizbullah fighters among the dead -and injured, the question remains as to what kind of "asset" the IDF -could credibly allege to have been contained within the building. The -timing of the attack, taking place as it did during a period of -relative calm and not in the immediate aftermath of a Hizbullah -missile launch, speaks of a punitive strike designed simply to kill -members of the Shia community from which Hizbullah is drawn and -receives its moral support. The targeting of unarmed Shia women and -children would represent a deliberate targeting of innocent civilians -for retaliatory or punitive purposes, and may well constitute a war -crime.
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-*Tom Clonan is The Irish Times security analyst.* ** * (c) The Irish
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10 day-old baby Waad, 08 August 2006, after her body was found in the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Beirut late 07 August
A rescue worker hands the dead body of ten day-old Lebanese baby Waad, 08 August 2006, found in the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Beirut late 07 August
Lebanese Abbas Wehbeh shouts while holding his 10 day-old niece Waad, 08 August 2006
Rescue workers use their bare hands to remove the dead body of ten day-old Lebanese baby Waad, liying in her mother's arms 08 August 2006, in the rubble of a building in chiah
Ten day-old baby Waad, lies in her mother's arms 08 August 2006, in the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli strike in Beirut late 07 August
A Lebanese youth shows the body of a baby after it was recovered under debris of a destroyed building, attacked late Monday by Israeli forces, in the southern Beirut suburb of Chiah
boy Hussein Rmeity, 9, suffering from head trauma and brain contusion rests in the intensive care unit of Mount Lebanon hospital
Injured Lebanese boy Hassan Al Raai rests in the intensive care unit of Hayat hospital in the Chiah suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday Aug. 8
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW! HEAD CRUSHED! POOR LITTLE KID! ISRAEL THINKS YOU ARE A TERRORIST! :S:S
Lebanese Red Cross volunteers and civil defense rescuers carry the body of a child after it was recovered under the debris of a destroyed building, attacked late Monday in chiah
