{"id":1194,"date":"2006-07-17T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2006-07-17T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T11:20:43","slug":"2006-7-17-pictures-from-lebanon-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"Pictures from Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Have received this email from a Lebanese friend:<\/p>\n

Last night , 60 raids were executed all over Lebanon , from Tripoli in the north to Baalback in the East ,and in Beirut. Since Thursday 197 civilians were killed and 35o injured according to the health ministry , but this can not be a finel account since whole villages and cities are completely cut off , there’ s no way to reach them or know wht’s happening there. Now what happened in the south last night seems to be outrageous . People are fleeing in masses , there are humongous traffic jams in Saida , caused by hundreds of people fleeing to Beirut through the South. Those people have nowhere to go in here , and that’s way they hadn’t left their villages so far. This morning, the streets of beirut were full with families carrying plastic bags in whivh they packed their belongings , or what’s left of them. Appartement buildings in beirut are either full or over priced. People took in relatives and friends in their houses . Now all this is fine, it’s war , killing destroying , moving people , cutting off cities , destroying infrastructure , it’s classical. But , please , take a minute and look at any of these pictures in a different way. Some countries said they will help lebanon’s reconstruction (thanks) . Saudi Arabia said it will give 50 milion $ in aid. A small calculation of the difference in oil prices between last Wednesday and today will show how generous this offer is , especially that the Saudis political stand almost gave the israelis a green light to go on. Anyway , that was not my point . The point is , if you take a real look at the pictures , you will see: a house , a car , a shop… Destroyed ones. But , 6 days ago , they were somebody’s car , shop , and house. Inside the houses were toys for children , books and music. All gone, and no one will pay for it. The shops are all what these people own. The harbour that was burnt last night , contained goods someone had paid for. People will go bankrupt. Did I mention that the targeted areas are the poorer in Lebanon? Oh yeah , and I forgot to mention all the people who died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"What's<\/a>
I only put one picture here (it shows destroyed homes in the Beirut suburb of Safir, I think), the rest of them are on Flickr<\/a>. Be warned, some of them are extremely graphic and show burnt and mutilated bodies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have received this email from a Lebanese friend:<\/p>\n

Last night , 60 raids were executed all over Lebanon , from Tripoli in the north to Baalback in the East ,and in Beirut. Since Thursday 197 civilians were killed and 35o injured according to the health ministry , but this can not be a finel account since whole villages and cities are completely cut off , there’ s no way to reach them or know wht’s happening there. Now what happened in the south last night seems to be outrageous . People are fleeing in masses , there are humongous traffic jams in Saida , caused by hundreds of people fleeing to Beirut through the South. Those people have nowhere to go in here , and that’s way they hadn’t left their villages so far. This morning, the streets of beirut were full with families carrying plastic bags in whivh they packed their belongings , or what’s left of them. Appartement buildings in beirut are either full or over priced. People took in relatives and friends in their houses . Now all this is fine, it’s war , killing destroying , moving people , cutting off cities , destroying infrastructure , it’s classical. But , please , take a minute and look at any of these pictures in a different way. Some countries said they will help lebanon’s reconstruction (thanks) . Saudi Arabia said it will give 50 milion $ in aid. A small calculation of the difference in oil prices between last Wednesday and today will show how generous this offer is , especially that the Saudis political stand almost gave the israelis a green light to go on. Anyway , that was not my point . The point is , if you take a real look at the pictures , you will see: a house , a car , a shop… Destroyed ones. But , 6 days ago , they were somebody’s car , shop , and house. Inside the houses were toys for children , books and music. All gone, and no one will pay for it. The shops are all what these people own. The harbour that was burnt last night , contained goods someone had paid for. People will go bankrupt. Did I mention that the targeted areas are the poorer in Lebanon? Oh yeah , and I forgot to mention all the people who died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"What's<\/a>
\nI only put one picture here (it shows destroyed homes in the Beirut suburb of Safir, I think), the rest of them are on Flickr<\/a>. Be warned, some of them are extremely graphic and show burnt and mutilated bodies.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}