I have seen my share of modern wars, as a researcher at Human Rights Watch. In Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq, we found many civilian casualties due to bombing campaigns. Civilians fleeing attacks were hit by mistake. In Iraq, US bombs often hit civilian homes, hours after Saddam Hussein or members of his inner circle had left, missing their legitimate targets but killing civilians.

In Lebanon it is a very different picture. Time after time, Israel strikes at civilian homes and civilian vehicles attempting to flee the besieged southern border zone, killing families without any military objective in sight.

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"And still, it continues ...": Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana in this collection of posts.

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Although you don't hear much about it here in the US, global protests were held this weekend for Lebanon.

STOP THE BOMBING NOW!

Round up of weekend events for Lebanon
July 28th –July 30th 2006

In the UK - these links are of protests around the globe

1/ Edinburgh: link
2/ Prestwick Airport: link
3/ Leeds: link
4/ Norwich: link
5/ London (Downing Street): link
5a/ London (Trafalgar Square): link
6/ Birmingham: link
7/ Brighton: link

Around the World:

8/ Beirut: link
9/ Pebble Beach, USA (Blair and Murdoch cosy up): link
10/ New York City (Brooklyn): link
11/ Portland, Oregon: link
12/ Perth, Australia: link
13/ Warsaw, Poland: link
14/ Tel Aviv, Israel: link
15/ Ireland: link