Israeli air strike kills 54 civilians - Yahoo! News

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Israeli air strike kills 54 civilians - Yahoo! News

• QANA, Lebanon (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed 54 civilians, including 37 children, on Sunday, prompting Lebanon to tell U.S. Secretary of State
  Condoleezza Rice she was unwelcome in Beirut and fuelling world pressure for a ceasefire.

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Police said Qana, which is about 11 km (seven miles) from
the border with Israel, was bombed at 1:30 a.m. (2230 GMT on
Saturday), destroying a three-storey building where about 63
displaced people were sheltering in the basement.

Many were killed in their sleep.

"Why have they attacked one- and two-year-old children and
defenseless women? What have they done wrong?" asked Mohamed
Samai, whose relatives were among the dead.

The bodies were wrapped tightly in plastic sheets and
assembled under an awning. Flowers were placed on the corpses.

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Another Israeli air strike killed five civilians, including
two children, in their house in the southern village of Yaroun.

Siniora demanded an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and
an international investigation into "Israeli massacres."

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  A woman in a red-patterned dress lay crumpled and lifeless
  in the broken masonry. A leg poked out from the shattered
  concrete nearby. A medic carried a dead child in his arms from
  rubble. Other children lay dead in the street.
  

Qana is already a potent symbol of Lebanese civilian deaths
at the hands of the Israeli military.

In April 1996, Israeli shelling killed more than 100
civilians sheltering at the base of U.N. peacekeepers in the
village during Israel's "Grapes of Wrath" bombing campaign.