One Lebanese father mourns loss of family with sole surviving daughter
August 29, 2006
By TODD PITMAN
MARWAHEEN, Lebanon (AP) _ Last month, Khamel Ali Abdallah kissed his wife and six children goodbye, then put them on a bus to his native village in south Lebanon for summer vacation. He was supposed to join them a week later, but war between Hezbollah and Israel broke out.
He would see only one of them again.
A War Story
Wasteland
Across south Lebanon, wide destruction but few troops now in view
August 23, 2006
By TODD PITMAN
AITA AL-SHAAB, Lebanon (AP) _ First came the tanks. Then came the warplanes. Then came the bulldozers.
A monthlong Israeli assault and weeks of fierce ground combat between Israel and Hezbollah fighters have reduced this once-vibrant tobacco farming village and Hezbollah stronghold to a wasteland of rubble, scorched trees and unexploded bombs _ a snapshot of the destruction the 34-day war wrought across southern Lebanon.
Cluster Bombs
Israeli-fired cluster bombs still kill, maim after war's end
August 31, 2006
By TODD PITMAN
YUHMOUR, Lebanon (AP) _ The fighting stopped two weeks ago, but it's still too dangerous for Abdullah Ziaeddine to move back into his war-blasted home, much less start to rebuild.
His yard, like hundreds of fields, villas and roads across Lebanon, is littered with unexploded bomblets from an Israeli cluster bomb attack that spewed small and deadly metal canisters. One step in the wrong place risks injury, loss of a limb _ or death.