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Moussa calls for Qana "massacre" probe
Published in Daily News Egypt on 31 - 07 - 2006

Egypt joins in condemnation of Israeli bombings
CAIRO: Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa joined a chorus of Arab leaders on Sunday in denouncing an Israeli air strike that killed 54 people in Lebanon, terming it a massacre and demanding an international probe. The dawn air raid, which was the single bloodiest attack during Israel s 19-day-old aggression on Lebanon, pulverized several buildings, including a three-storey house in which civilians were sheltered, killing people in their sleep. The Arab League Secretary-General requested an international investigation into this massacre and other Israeli war crimes that were committed in Lebanon, especially those that affected Lebanese civilians, an Arab League statement said. The bombing in the southern village of Qana prompted Lebanon to tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has resisted calling for an immediate truce, that she was unwelcome in Beirut before a ceasefire.
President Hosni Mubarak, also a key U.S. ally, said: The Arab Republic of Egypt expresses its profound alarm and its condemnation of the irresponsible Israeli bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana, which resulted in innocent casualties, mostly women and children. In Cairo, scores of opposition lawmakers joined a protest march of several hundred people from parliament to the Arab League. Moussa, who characterized Israeli attacks in Lebanon as savage , also called on the UN Security Council to pressure Israel to stop its military offensive. Among the dead in Qana were 37 children. At least 542 people have been killed in Lebanon in the war, although the health minister has estimated a toll of 750 including unrecovered bodies. Fifty-one Israelis have also been killed.
The UN humanitarian agencies in Lebanon condemn the killing of innocent and unarmed civilians in Qana, early this morning, in which nearly half of them were children.
Due to the bombing of roads to the village and the continuing bombardments, it took 6 hours before the Lebanese Red Cross could reach them.
According to a statement issued by UNICEF, The continuing Israeli bombardments of civilian centers and civilian infrastructure threaten to spread the humanitarian disaster to the entire population of Lebanon, as the ability to supply, re-supply or deliver essential and life-sustaining service food, medicine, water, fuel, electricity, healthcare, shelter have systematically been cut off. Even the evacuation of the wounded for treatment and the dead for burial has itself become an enormous risk to life and soul. The statement continued, adding, The toll of civilian deaths from the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon far exceeds the deaths of combatants. The targeting of civilians and essential civilian infrastructure is an egregious violation of international humanitarian law and can be considered war crimes.
But the attack in Qana, already a potent symbol in Lebanon because of a deadly 1996 Israeli attack there, sparked a fresh outpouring of Arab rage. Syria, at odds with Washington over support for Hezbollah, labeled the attack as state terrorism while US ally Jordan called it an ugly crime . The massacre committed by Israel in Qana this morning shows the barbarity of this aggressive entity, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad was quoted as saying by state news agency SANA. It constitutes state terrorism committed in front of the eyes and ears of the world. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Israeli attacks would not break the will of the Lebanese people and called for unity in the face of Israeli war criminals . Jordan s King Abdullah, whose country is one of two Arab states to have signed peace treaties with Israel, called on the international community to find a way out of this crisis . This criminal aggression is an ugly crime that has been committed by the Israeli forces in the city of Qana that is a gross violation of all international statutes, Abdullah said. Egypt and Jordan, along with Saudi Arabia, are worried that a prolonged conflict could strengthen the hands of radical Muslim groups across the region. The Libyan government said it would seek to end the violence through contacts with UN Security Council members and step up donations of medicine and food to Lebanon. Reuters


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