Special report:Israel-Lebanon conflicts

    BEIJING, July 31 -- The Qana air raid was the bloodiest attack in Israel's nineteen-day-old war against Lebanon. Following the bombing, the Lebanese government told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that she is NOT welcome in Beirut until there is a real ceasefire.

    The dawn air raid pulverized buildings in Qana, including a three-storey house in which dozens of refugees - most of them women and children - were sheltering, killing many of them in their sleep.

    "Last night we heard Israeli planes flying over us. We were about fifty people in the room, about thirty children. Most of the children died. We are disabled people. We were sleeping in the shelter."

    This was Israel's deadliest attack so far. But scenes like this have been repeated across the country. Civilians account for most of the dead and wounded in this war.

    "It happened at one o'clock at night. The children were sleeping. My daughter and my son were sleeping next to me. My daughter has been killed and my husband and my son have been rescued from under the debris."

    Lebanese Red Cross officials in Beirut said twenty-three children were among the dead and at least seventeen more bodies were feared to be still under the rubble, seven of them children.

    Distraught people in Qana screamed in grief and anger amid wrecked buildings as others scrabbled at slabs of concrete with their hands to try to reach people buried in the debris.

    Israel's military said it had told residents of Qana to leave and said Hezbollah bore responsibility for using the area to fire rockets.

(Source: CCTV.com)

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A rescuer carries a child killed in an Israeli air raid in Qana in south Lebanon, July 30, 2006. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

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