Mother and Six Children Killed in Israeli Air Attack

30/07/2006| IslamWeb

Fourteen civilians, including a mother and her six children, were killed yesterday in a new wave of Israeli air raids on Lebanon.

The seven members of the Kharakeh family were crushed to death along with another man under the rubble of their two-storey house in Nabatiyeh.

The father, Adnan Al Kharakeh, an official with the Lebanese civil defence, was not killed in the raid. It was not clear if he had escaped or was not at home at the time of the strike.

Six civilians were also killed in an Israeli air raid on four houses in the border village of Ain Arab in southeast Lebanon.

The village is next to Ghajar, a disputed border village which is partly occupied by Israel.

Meanwhile, Hizbollah's leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened more rocket attacks on cities in central Israel.

Israeli warplanes last night struck the main Lebanese crossing point of Masnaa near the border with Syria.

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Lebanese morgue workers wrap the bodies of victims who were killed when an Israeli warplane hit the village of Nmairieh, next to the market town of Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon, Saturday, July 29, 2006, killing seven people including a woman and her five children. (AP)