Israel Denies Deliberate Bombing Of UN Station, Suffers Heavy Casualties
Things are beginning to heat up even more in the war between Israel and Islamic extremists:
The Israeli army suffered heavy casualties Wednesday in its fierce battle to take the Hezbollah stronghold of Bint Jbeil in what has developed into the heaviest ground combat so far in a war now into its third week.
Arab news outlets reported the deaths of at least nine and as many as a dozen Israeli troops, numbers unconfirmed by Israeli officials, who did acknowledge significant casualties.
At the same time, Israel has suffered a black eye to its reputation after Kofi Annan accused the IDF of deliberately targeting a UN outpost, a charge that Israel denies:
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday expressed “deep regret” after an Israeli bomb destroyed a U.N. observer post on the border in southern Lebanon, killing three observers and leaving another feared dead.
U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Israel appeared to have struck the site deliberately, but Olmert said the strike had been a mistake. The Israeli premier spoke on the phone with Annan, expressing dismay over Annan’s accusation and promising a thorough investigation, according to Olmert’s office.
It appears likely that there will be several more weeks of fighting at a minimum…
As I work here I’m listening to Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad, a book on tape about the siege of Stalingrad. I note a blogentry, Israel’s taken “heavy casualties”, I better go read the article.
Nine soldiers killed. Today this is called ‘heavy casualties’. NINE?
Two million killed at Stalingrad. Six THOUSAND killed at Iwo Jima in just three days of fighting, for ONE ISLAND. God almighty the modern press is almost infantiley retarded.