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Israeli airstrikes in qana kill 34 children Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/15161957.htm http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/15161957.htm Posted on Mon, Jul. 31, 2006 Air strikes in Qana kill 34 children By Hannah Allam Washington Bureau QANA, Lebanon - Many of the bodies were as tiny as dolls, with limp little fingers and debris that clung to their curls. They were killed in their sleep by an Israeli air strike before dawn here Sunday, still dressed in action-figure pajamas and thin nightgowns. By late afternoon, at least 34 children - more than half the 54 or more people who died in the bombing of Qana - had been pulled from the rubble of a house where families had gathered each night in the mistaken hope that safety from the Israeli strikes could be found in numbers. The attack was the deadliest so far in Israel's 19-day war with Hezbollah militants and, as in so many other villages, Qana's civilians paid the price. But because of the children and because of history, this one resonated. It was here that Israeli artillery killed more than 100 civilians during an offensive in 1996, forever linking the words "Qana" and "massacre" in the minds of Arabs. Witnesses here say Sunday's strike came at 1 a.m., followed by others at dawn. The barrage partially collapsed the house and flattened nearby buildings - though Israel has hit Qana so hard in recent days that it's difficult to distinguish old rubble from the new. The stench of death wafted from previous targets even as workers feverishly tore through the wreckage of the latest one. There are two main clans in Qana: the Shalhoubs and the Hashems. The Shalhoubs who were too poor, scared or stubborn to flee their village had begun spending their nights together in the house, which was owned by a Hashem. It was clearly a residence, they figured, so they thought it would be safe. The air strike Sunday wiped out dozens of Shalhoubs, and probably a generation of the clan's children. "All the Shalhoubs are dead," Hosniya Shalhoub, 40, said at a hospital in Tyre. Corpses were loaded into the large refrigerated truck that's been the de facto morgue since the conflict began. "Here you go, Israel, take your terrorists," women from Qana shouted, as a second wave of dead children was unloaded from stench-filled ambulances.

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