Come Nineveh, Come Tyre

“She had come to identify and bury 24 members of her family, including her sister and her sister’s nine children. They died trying to escape their village; Israeli planes had attacked the road as they drove...It was a crude burial carried out under a baking sun, but even that was much better than most people felled in south Lebanon’s furious fighting could expect…Nearby, the mass burial was about to begin….The man held aloft a baby so tiny it was unclear if it was a late-term fetus or a newborn. Its skin was mottled and purple...'This is what Bush wants! This is what this dog wants!' he cried. 'It’s full of children!'... 'Twenty-seven years old, my darling, 27 years old.'”

(Via Martini Republic.)