General Assembly Sixtieth session Agenda item 14 The situation in the Middle East Security Council Sixty-first year Identical letters dated 24 July 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council On instructions from my Government, I wish to transmit to you herewith a list of Israeli acts of aggression against Lebanon which took place from 18 July 2006 to 22 July 2006, targeting infrastructures, towns and villages with their inhabitants and the areas surrounding them with various types of air, sea and land weapons. Also attached is a list showing casualties, including the dead and wounded, and significant material damage caused (see annex). I should be grateful if you would have this letter and its annex circulated as a document of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, under agenda item 14, and of the Security Council. (Signed) Caroline Ziadeh Chargé d’affaires a.i. Annex to the identical letters dated 24 July 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council Principal places targeted and damage sustained from 18 July 2006 to 8 a.m. on 19 July 2006 • Bridges targeted – Internal bridge of Al-Ghaziye (completely blown up) – Bridge between Mdoukha and Ain Arab (destroyed) – Bridge between Haouch al-Rafqa and Misraya (central Bekaa) – Viaducts at the entrance to Younine • Targeting of the Mar Jirjis Greek Orthodox Church in Rachaya al-Foukhar, resulting in the wounding of 19 persons • Targeting of a number of homes in Srifa, resulting in a large number of dead and wounded • Continued targeting of lorries in the various regions, as follows: – Two lorries in a building in Choueifat – A lorry on the Zahle-Fourzol highway – Destruction of the fronts of three lorries and setting fire to two lorries on the highway between Haouch al-Omara and Dhour Zahle, resulting in the death of Bilal Khalid al-Khayr (Jordanian — one of the drivers) and the wounding of six other persons – Empty lot for impounding lorries in the place formerly known as “Mir’ab Yazbek”, in the Hadath area — Boulevard Camille Chamoun, the road leading from Galerie Sam`an in the direction of Sainte Thérèse – A caravan composed of a refrigerated trucks loaded with approximately 20 tons of medicine and eleven ambulances offered by the United Arab Emirates while travelling along the Haouch al-Omara — Dhour Zahle highway, resulting in the destruction of the refrigerated truck, hitting a vehicle accompanied by the Internal Security Forces and wounding Corporal Hussein Shukr (Internal Security Forces) – Targeting of a refrigerated truck plant in Choueifat-Alamrusiyah and destruction of four buildings in the surrounding area • Targeting of chicken farms in Ksara and Loussi • Targeting of highways connecting the districts of Hasbaiya and Rachaya and roads in the central and northern Bekaa: – The Maallaqa-Zahle highway, opposite the al-Barakis fuel station, which resulted in the small hole in the road and material damage of medium extent to the shops – The Bab Marea and Ain al-Tine highway before Aayoun el-Jaouze (cut off) – The Qaraaoun (army checkpoint) road going towards Sohmor (cut off) – The Qaraaoun Dam-Machghara road near the Litani Authority (cut off) – The Majdel Balhiss highway near the Al-Chmaisi intersection (cut off) – The Qaraaoun Dam highway in the vicinity of the town at a distance of 150 metres from the army checkpoint (cut off) – The Machghara — Ain al-Tine Road — Habib bridge – The Saghbine highway near Chateau du Lac (rocket which did not explode) – The highway between Khirbet Rouha-Aaita al-Foukhar highway, Qal`at al-Jabbar area – The Aaqabe highway near Abu Djaja bridge – The Kfar Qouq highway, Ain al-Sihrij area – The Aaita al-Foukhar — Rachaya highway near the Anwar station – Al-Bire highway, Al-Falouj area – Ain Aata — Ain Hourche highway, Al-Malha area (previously targeted) • Warplanes targeted the following towns and villages: South Governorate – Chaqra, Baraachit, Beit Yahoun, Ainata, Aita al-Jabal, Haddatha, Tair Debba, Hasbaiya, Tair Harfa, Toura, Qana, Haouch Basme, Biout es Siyad, Ain B`al, Hamoul, Ain Ebel, Tebnine, Chouaia, Shab`a, Rmaich, Talloussa, Qlaile, Zebqine, Chaaitiye, Aabbassiye, Soultaniye, Tallat Qadmus, Heltam, Chhabiye, Rachaf, Iskandarouna, Majdel Selm, Hanine, Yaroun, Debel, Naqoura, Aaitaroun, Yatar, Chabriha, Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, Maarake, Borj al-Chemali, Bir es Salassel, Khiam, Ghandouriye, Maroun al-Ras, Froun, Hebbariye, Jmaijme, Ghaziye Mount Lebanon – Choueifat, Hadath, southern suburbs (Dahiye) Bekaa – Fourzol, Qaraaoun, Aitnit, Saghbine, Machghara, Bayadir al-Adas, Kfar Qouq, Khirbet Rouha, Ain Arab, Bakka, Yanta, Majdel Balhiss, Kfarmechki, Jubb Farah, Ain Aata, Zellaya, Sohmor, Nahle, Boudai, Haouch al-Rafqa, Taraya, Douris, Bednayel, Maqne, Younine, Al-Taibe, Haouch al-Omara, Mdoukha, Kfair. • Ground and air artillery fire targeted the following towns and villages: – Ain Ebel, Rmaich, Talloussa, Qlaile, Soultaniye, Khiam, Ramiya, Rachaya al-Foukhar, Bent Jbail, Kounine, Tiri, Helta, Chouakir, Chabriha, Meis al-Jabal, Zebqine, Ainata, Srifa, Chhabiye Principal places targeted and damage sustained from 19 July 2006 to 8 a.m. on 20 July 2006 • The following bridges and roads were targeted North Region – Aandqet — Akroum highway (cut off) – Aandqet — Qbaiyat highway (not cut off) – Qbaiyat el-Gharbiye highway (cut off, and one lorry hit) – Haouchab road (one person killed and three injured) – Mazraat Balde bridge (secondary road between Halba and Qbaiyat — destroyed) Mount Lebanon – Both Rmaile — Ouardaniye bridges – Rmaile — Aalmane road The Bekaa – Dellafi bridge which connects the district of Jezzine with the western Bekaa and Hasbaiya (destroyed) – Targeting of the Britel — En-Nabi Sbat — Ham — Maaraboun roads, in which two vehicles were hit and five persons were killed and others injured – Targeting of four small bridges (viaducts) connecting Zahle industrial city with the town of Faaour, also connecting the plain of Fourzol with the town of Terbol, the three-way intersection of the towns of Rayak, Ablah Baalbek and the French Cemetery heights, connecting the towns of Bednayel and Hashimiye (total destruction took place, a chicken farm in Karak was hit, suffering substantial damage, and Salem Darwish and his brother Jad were hit as well as Sergeant Bassam Uwayshiq (engineers division) were hit, but are not in serious condition) The targeting of the timber mill belonging to Daib Barakat Barakat and the livestock farm belonging to Sa’id Ali Abu Arabi outside Sultan Yacoub al-Tahta in the Tall al-Za’azig district, resulted in the destruction of the mill and the farm, the death of Barakat and the wounding of four people as well as deaths of several head of cattle. The targeting by six missiles, four of which exploded, of uncultivated land in Ashrafiyyah belonging to Robert in which were two water well excavators (which had been disused for some time) set one excavator on fire and caused damage to the other and to the glass of neighbouring buildings. As a result of the targeting of the Maliban glassworks in Ta’nayil, six lorries were totally destroyed and seven people were wounded. The targeting of the Hizbollah social affairs centre in Al-Hermel which was totally destroyed and of the Hizbollah centre in the town of Ain (by a missile which did not explode) causing damage to the building; the Israeli air force also targeted a three-storey building in El-Naby Shit belonging to Muhammad Shukr, totally destroying it, killing seven people and injuring two. The targeting by six missiles of the site of the Popular Front High Command outside the town of Sultan Yacoub without causing any casualties. The attack caused a brush wood fire in the vicinity of the site. The targeting of the western and eastern entrances to the Rafik Hariri international airport. Targeting in two stages of the building where the leadership of the Joint Security Forces had its headquarters in Bint Jubayl, injuring 17 people (3 members of the internal security forces and 14 army personnel) none of them critically. An ambulance belonging to the Ayn Mim Hospital, a Land Rover belonging to the police force and three vehicles belonging to the internal security forces were also slightly damaged. Casualties The attacks resulted in the death of 38 people and injuries to 116, the total number of fatalities being 250 with 861 injured. There were also many victims under the ruins in numerous places, including the town of Srifa. Attitudes and activities of the Israeli enemy Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets over the south of the country caricaturing Sayyid Hasan Nasrullah, Secretary-General of Hizbollah, as a puppet manipulated by Iran and Syria. Enemy Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets over various areas critical of Sayyid Hasan Nasrullah. The Al-Sharq broadcasting station belonging to the Lahd militia transmitting from abroad on a wavelength of 756 meters, called continuously on the people of the frontier villages in the name of the National Lebanese Alliance saying that at 1500 hours the ultimatum would expire and that all the people of the villages should leave or bear the responsibility — Rabb Al-Thalathin, Al-Sultaniyyah, Tulin, Juwaya, Bint Jubayl, Marun Al-Ra’s, Aitaroun, Ain Ata, Yarun, El-Bayadhah — and saying that the party giving the warning is excused from blame. Israeli merchant ships in the port Beirut were asked to report their coordinates. Attention is drawn to the following: The evacuation of foreign nationals from Lebanon continued by land and sea from the port of Beirut: 1,011 United States nationals were evacuated on board the cruise ship Orient Queen which sailed on the same day; Canadian nationals were evacuated to Cyprus on board the ship Blue Dawn which sailed from the Marina in Abu Dhabi to pier no. 7 in the port of Beirut. Three hundred French nationals in Lebanon were evacuated on board the French warship Jan Devenne which sailed at 1710 hours. The Italian frigate Durand de la Penne arrived with a mission to evacuate Italian nationals from Lebanon. Three hundred and sixty British and other European nationals in Lebanon were evacuated by the warship HMS Gloucester which sailed at 2000 hours. Two hundred and fifty nationals of Greece and Cyprus from Lebanon were evacuated on board the Greek warship Peshara. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees gathered together about 150 people of different nationalities (Iraqi, Sudanese, Ethiopian and Somali) to request their transfer out of Lebanon because of the prevailing security situation; after communications with officials of the Office, 14 people were transferred to the city of Tripoli. A rise was recorded in the number of refugees from the targeted villages and from the villages and towns threatened with bombardment as well as an increase in infiltration as a result of the continuing hostilities and the rise in the number of victims. Yesterday, Wednesday 19 July 2006 witnessed an escalation of the Israeli aggression by land, sea and air that led to the deaths of 70 civilians and the wounding of over 300. It was marked by Israeli aircraft and warships targeting missiles vehicles carrying food and medical supplies and ambulances on both international highways and those connecting various parts of Lebanon. This was to tighten the siege imposed on Lebanese cities and villages, most of which remained isolated, especially in the South and the Bekaa. For the first time the bombing extended to the Ashrafieh quarter in the heart of Beirut, and two of its aquifer water bores were bombed. The South A number of victims remained buried beneath rubble in several villages and appeals continued to be made for help in retrieving victims and securing medicines and food supplies. The village of Srifa in the Tyre area was surrounded by gunfire, and an entire neighbourhood was destroyed with children, women and the elderly still in it. There are still more than 30 bodies that have not been removed because the town continues to be hemmed in by gunfire. In Tyre aircraft bombed the Jami` and Baraka quarters and destroyed several houses with the occupants still inside. A precise count of the number of victims could not be made because it was impossible for emergency and rescue teams to reach the scene. The number of victims still beneath the rubble was estimated to be at least twenty. The national information agency provided an initial count of victims, and noted that there were still seven citizens under the rubble of one house, including three from the same family. Bombing of two other houses killed eight dead and injured ten. In Sila in Tyre aircraft destroyed several houses. Five people, including a child were killed. Two civilian cars carrying displaced persons from Aytrun were bombed from the air, resulting in the deaths of a man, two women and a child and five injuries. The town had already witnessed the massacre that took the lives of ten civilians of Canadian nationality. In Alma al-Sha`b a shell falling in the square took the life of Ilyas Farah and wounded Fadi Farah. In Rumeish a house was hit by Israeli bombs, leading to the death of two citizens and the wounding of several others. Several villages in the Marjayoun area were subjected to continuous heavy bombardment that led to the destruction of a number of houses and injury to several persons. In Mhaibib, bombing led to the death of one citizen. The hostile bombing targeted a house in Debbine, resulting in the death of Daud al-Khalid and his son Ahmad (two years old) and daughter Ebla (six years old). His daughters Huda (seven years old) and Huweida (four years old) were injured. The Lebanese Red Cross transported 18 wounded from Blida. The Israeli bombing included two outposts of the international forces operating in the South of Lebanon in Al-Naqoura and Maroun al-Ras, and a headquarters of the Lebanese Joint Security Force located in the Bint Jbeil Vocational School Building, resulting in the injury of 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen, including a colonel in the force deployed in the South. Villages in the Arqub area were subjected to concentrated bombardment with internationally prohibited phosphorus shells that gave off poisonous smoke and gas, killing one citizen and wounding a number of others, and ignited fires in forests and olive groves. Rashayya al-Fukhar was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment that struck the police station and church, which caught fire, injuring two people who had taken refuge in it. A number of houses were hit. Fifteen shells fell, including seven phosphorus shells which caused fires and damage. Israeli military aircraft attacked civilian buildings, homes and businesses in Nabatiye, killing five citizens from one family. Four others were injured and an ambulance was targeted and destroyed. Military aircraft targeted and destroyed a poultry farm on the Zahle highway, also damaging nearby bakeries and business concerns. On the Taanayel international highway, a glass factory was destroyed. Nine of the 25 Indian workers inside the factory at the time were injured, in addition to one Lebanese. In Loussi, a timber mill and a sheep farm were destroyed and four people were injured. In Baalbek, a school and the premises housing the consumer cooperative were destroyed. In Al-Nabi Chit, a four-storey building was destroyed, killing an entire family of father, mother and four children. A displaced person from Mais al-Jabal was also killed and four people were injured. In Maaraboun on the Lebanese-Syrian borders, Israeli aircraft bombed three pick-up trucks carrying farm workers, three of whom were killed and another two of whom were injured. In Borj al-Brajne, Israeli military aircraft dropped 23 tons of explosives on a mosque under construction, as a result of which the mosque was destroyed, the surrounding area was seriously damaged and a woman was injured. Israeli military aircraft raided a truck parking area in the vicinity of Galeries Sam`an, killing one citizen and wounding three. In Sahra al-Chouweifat, a refrigerator plant was demolished by Israeli bombing and trucks parked at the plant were destroyed by fire. The bombing also devastated a timber warehouse and caused fires to break out. Residential buildings also came under the aerial bombardment; one citizen was killed and another was injured. Bombing of trucks In a further intensification of the siege, transport vehicles carrying food and construction materials became targets for the Israeli air force and navy. The leader of the Union of Truck Owners, Shafiq Al-Qasis, stated that the bombed trucks had either been transporting essential goods to besieged inhabitants or were standing empty in parking areas and that they had been bombed with the aim of further besieging displaced inhabitants, as well as those who remained in their homes. He added that truck owners were now avoiding goods transport because of the danger to their lives, particularly on the main roads between Beirut and the governorates. He gave the following detailed information: – Four trucks carrying plastic items, oil barrels and other manufactured articles from Kuwait were bombed on the Tarchich road in the Bekaa; – Fifteen empty trucks used for transporting goods to and from Beirut port were bombed in the Choueifat area; – Fifteen empty trucks awaiting loading were bombed in Beirut port; – Trucks loaded with earth and construction materials were bombed while travelling along the Jbail road, as was a refrigerated truck travelling along the Taanayel Chatoura road with a load of vegetables destined for outside Lebanon; – Trucks impounded for violations by the Internal Security Forces were bombed at the site where they were being kept on Boulevard Camille Chamoun. In addition to the raids involving the transport sector (comprising 165,000 trucks), the caution shifted to minibuses and the outside broadcasting vans used by television channels for live transmissions. Daily report on the Israeli aggression, 20 July 2006 On the ninth day of the barbaric Israeli aggression against Lebanon, Israeli military aircraft again bombed various areas, starting with the southern suburbs and extending to the villages of the south and the areas of Baalbek and Hermel. The runways at Rafiq Hariri International Airport were also repeatedly bombed. Yesterday, 20 July 2006, saw the continuation of bombing operations that extended to different areas of the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Bekaa. In particular, there were renewed massacres in more than one area, notably in the villages of the south. The number of displaced persons is estimated at 700,000, most of them from the south and the suburbs. In Aitaroun, the Israeli bombing destroyed a number of homes, which collapsed on the occupants. A massacre was thus perpetrated. Casualties still lie beneath the debris and inhabitants are appealing for help from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In Bent Jbail, beleaguered inhabitants in an amusement park called for relief supplies of medication, food and infant milk. Speaking by telephone, the manager of the Bent Jbail amusement park said that a large number of families, including United States, French and Canadian nationals, had been under siege in an underground shelter for days and were in an extremely bad humanitarian situation. Correspondents of the National News Agency (NNA) reported from the south that the southern villages subjected yesterday to air, land and sea bombing are now virtually empty following an enormous wave of displacement and that the town of Tyre is almost completely deserted after its links with the surrounding areas were severed by Israeli military aircraft. The government hospital in Tyre made a succession of appeals for help after it had run out of capacity to refrigerate the corpses of those killed, amounting to over 100, several of which it intended to bury today. The relief organization in the Bekaa issued a report on the damage in the region, stating that 30 homes, five petrol stations and 20 bridges had been destroyed and 1,000 homes damaged. The head of the municipality of Tyre, Abdul Rahman Al-Bizri, provided detailed overall statistics for the number of displaced persons from the south as at the morning of 20 July 2006, as follows: Tyre (town) — 16,000; Tyre (neighbouring area) — 4,679; Jazin — 3,000; total — 23,679. Percentages: elderly — 7 per cent; children — 30 per cent; chronically ill — 6 per cent; pregnant women — 2 per cent; disabled persons — 0.5 per cent. The director of the World Food Programme (WFP) office in Beirut, Amir Dawoudi, said that the damage to roads and bridges had completely blocked the transport of food to displaced citizens. The director of the WFP Middle East office, Naila Sabra, warned of an increasing wave of displacement if the situation continued to worsen. The spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Elizabeth Byrs, warned of an acute humanitarian crisis if humanitarian supplies and relief failed to reach the south. Military operations (Tyre) Villages in the district of Tyre continued to be subjected to air, land and sea bombing throughout yesterday until the early hours of Friday morning, with military aircraft launching a raid every quarter of an hour. The aerial bombardment caused fires in the Borj Rahhal Al-Abbasiya triangle and isolated it from the surrounding area. Six female citizens were injured in the bombing of the area surrounding Al-Bourghiliye al-Rihaniye. Aircraft destroyed a number of homes in Srifa and over 30 bodies still lie beneath the rubble. Humanitarian organizations have not yet been able to move them and efforts to do so are currently under way by international emergency forces. Military aircraft targeted a timber mill in Abbasiyah and set it on fire. Mustafa Da’ud, the Mayor of Al-Burghaliyah, spoke of the insufficiency of relief and rescue operations given the thousands of civilians from the Qadmus and Al-Rihane neighbourhoods and elsewhere in Tyre in need of medical attention, milk for their children, and water. Aircraft targeted displaced citizens in their cars on the Dardaghaya-Ma`rub road, and a car and its passengers were hit. Bint Jbeil Most notable yesterday was the massacre perpetrated by the enemy in the town of Ainata in the Bint Jbeil region. The seven victims still lie beneath the rubble of one of the houses. The day before yesterday Ainata suffered the massacre of four members of the Darwish family. The Bint Jbeil Vocational School building between Aitrun and Maroun al-Ras was subjected to an Israeli bombardment that could well have resulted in a massacre, since the building is sheltering hundreds of refugee families and part of it houses the headquarters of the Lebanese Joint Security Force deployed in the South. Israeli military aircraft used internationally prohited cluster bombs to bomb villages in the Bint Jbeil area. Military aircraft destroyed a number of houses as well as the road from Al-Mujadel to to Deir Antar. Several people were wounded by the bombing. Aircraft dropped internationally prohibited cluster bombs on the outskirts of the towns of Qabrikha, Al-Saluqi, Al-Ghandouriye and Al-Qantara. A police officer at the Ramiye police station was injured by Israeli sniper fire. Nabatiyah Two persons were injured in a house attacked by Israeli military aircraft in Zebdine. A citizen and his two children were killed and several citizens injured when aircraft bombed houses in Debbine. Marjayoun Israeli attacks destroyed the Al-Khiyam detention centre. Israel threatened residents of Kafr Killa with massive bombardment if they did not leave their homes. Air and artillery bombardment targeted villages in the region and tried to cut off contacts among them. Arqub There were more than 2500 reports of 120, 155 and 175 mm. shells falling on various locations in the Arqub area. These included 75 phosphorus shells, 50 cluster shells and 30 incendiary shells. At most times, more than three bombs per minute were reported. Several air attacks on several villages in the area were also recorded. Over 59 per cent of the region’s residents have been displaced and are living in deplorable conditions due to delays in the arrival of aid. Jezzine and Sidon Military aircraft destroyed a large portion of the Rumayla-Alman Bridge near the Awali Bridge. Aircraft bombed the coastal road between Ansariyah and Adlun, creating a huge crater in the middle of it. There were attacks on the bridges connecting Beirut, Sidon and Iqlim al-Kharrub. Naameh Bridge was destroyed. The central, western and eastern Bekaa Israeli military aircraft destroyed a bridge on the Zahle-Rayak-Baalbek road, another on the Zahle-Dalhamiye road, and a third on the Terbol-Al-Furzul road, which cut off contacts between these areas. Aircraft destroyed several houses near the Palace of Justice in Baalbek, and one person was injured. In Al-Hermel aircraft destroyed a fishery, restaurants and parks along the banks of the Asi river. Aircraft attacked a bridge in Mahallat al-Umayri near the Syrian border. The villages and towns of the western Bekaa are suffering from lack of food supplies and medical help because of the siege imposed by Israeli fire. A humanitarian catastrophe is predicted. The southern suburbs Military aircraft continued to bomb the residential quarters of Haret Harik, Bir al-Abd and al-Ruways. One citizen was killed and another wounded. Statistical table of losses of human life caused by Israeli attacks from 18 July 2006 to 0800 hours on 19 July 2006 Date Location Injured Killed Comments 18-19 July 2006 Rashayya al-Fukhar 9 Tallusa 4 3 Haris 3 Tyre 1 Abbasiyah 1 5 Yatar 1 Hawsh Basma 1 Ayta al-Fukhar 2 1 Bayadir al-Ads 5 One of the injured was a member of the State Security Forces Mafraq I`at 1 A recruit Hawsh al-Umara 7 1 One of the injured was a member of the State Security Forces Yunin 2 Includes an army captain Majdal Silm 1 Shawakir 6 Shuaytiyah 1 Souane 3 Toura 1 Burj al-Shamali 1 Shabriha 2 Army reports vehicle falling into bomb crater Mafraq Abbasiyah 2 Al-Hadath 3 1 Total 57 11 Total soldiers killed: 0 Total soldiers injured: 4 Overall total to date 745 232 Total soldiers killed: 20 Total soldiers injured: 108 Chart of fatalities from 18 July 2006 through 0800 hours on 19 July 2006 (11 in total) Name of deceased Place Nationality Comments Bahia Turmus Tallusa Ali Turmus Tallusa Basil Turmus Tallusa Muna Funeish Abbasiyah Muhammad Shalhoub Abbasiyah Two anonymous Abbasiyah Yasir Alawiyah Abbasiyah Michel Shamoun `Ayta al-Fukhar Bilal al-Khayr Hawsh al-Umara Riyad (rest of name unknown) Al-Hadath List of persons injured from 18 July 2006 to 8 a.m. on 19 July 2006 (54 persons) Name Place Nationality Comments Salim Mitri Rachaya al-Foukhar Yusif Hardan Rachaya al-Foukhar Tayya Khalil Rachaya al-Foukhar Samira Al-Hajj Rachaya al-Foukhar Wali` Mitri Rachaya al-Foukhar Su’ad Al-Zuqi Rachaya al-Foukhar 3 children of [illegible] Atallah Rachaya al-Foukhar Samih Tirmis [?] Talloussa Fatima Tirmis [?] Talloussa Maryam Tirmis [?] Talloussa Nadia Tirmis [?] Talloussa Hadi Yassin Haris Maryam Fayad Haris Ahmad Sa`d [?] Haris Maryam Atwi Tyre Nabih Zayn Aabbassiye Kawkab Kurani Bater Mustafa Sulayman Haouch Basme Thomas Sam`an Aaita el-Foukhar Peter Sam`an Aaita el-Foukhar Warrant Officer Muhammad Asfur Bayadir al-Adas Internal Security Forces Nabil Asfur Bayadir al-Adas Ahmad Hammud Bayadir al-Adas Abdu Abu Murad Bayadir al-Adas Wahid Abi Haidar Bayadir al-Adas Recruit Hasan Al-Rash`ili [?] Mafraq [illegible] Yusif Nasr al-Din Haouch al-Omara Corporal Hussein Shukr Haouch al-Omara Internal Security Forces Nail [Tail?] Abliyah Haouch al-Omara Khadijah Shalha Haouch al-Omara Du`a’ Shalha Haouch al-Omara Talal Shalha Haouch al-Omara Khalid Ma`sumi Haouch al-Omara Muhammad Sallum Younine Corporal Hasan Hummaida Younine Samir Sabra Majdel Selm Husam [?] Al-Yababi [?] Chouakir Ahmad Mahmud Chouakir Fatima Aoun Chouakir Fatima Daoud Aoun Chouakir Isra’ Aoun Chouakir Najwa Aoun Chouakir Khalil [?] Fadil Chaaiti [?] Fatima Rafa [?] Souane Kifa Rafa Souane Aman Shahadeh Souane Maryam Dhayni Toura Abu [illegible] Qasim Borj al-Chemali Master Sergeant Ahmad [illegible] Chabriha Private Shadi Shalhoub Chabriha Murtada Haidar Aabbassiye intersection Qasim Salman Aabbassiye intersection Zeina Kayis Ra`d Hadath [Illegible] Na`im Ayyub Hadath Ali Khalil Al-Trabulsi Hadath List of persons killed from 18 July 2006 to 8 a.m. on 19 July 2006 (54 persons) Name Place Nationality Comments Sadiq Mustafa Hamid Nabatiyye Wurud Hamid Nabatiyye Haydat [?] Hamid Nabatiye Nabatiyye Sri Lankan Rmaich Unknown Rmaich Unknown Unknown Ghaziye Unknown Nabil Khalid Al-Sa`di Choueifat Fatima Hamid Nabatiye Dib Barakat Barakat Loussi Hayat Ilyas Farah Alma ech Chaab Asad Hasan Jouaiya Khairallah Ahmad Mustafa Maaraboun Shakib Ahmad Mustafa Maaraboun Muhammad Ahmad Mahmud Al-Awzafi Maaraboun Dib Rashid Yahi Maaraboun Muwaffaq Ali Hasan Maaraboun Ali Sulayman Shaqir Nabi Chit Hala Hazime Nabi Chit Khadijah Al-Musawi Nabi Chit Yasin Hussein Shukr Nabi Chit Talal Hussein Shukr Nabi Chit Bilal Hussein Shukr Nabi Chit Muhammad Hussein Shukr Nabi Chit Ghassan Faqih Haouch Basme Girl child Haouch Basme Woman Haouch Basme Woman Haouch Basme In`imam Hikmet Bu Khalil Qana Wounded Ali Nabih Tirmis Qana Wounded Daoud Al-Khalid Debbine Abla Daoud Al-Khalid Debbine Ahmad Daoud Al-Khalid Debbine Salwa Dakroub Ainata Musa Darwish Ainata Zeinab Darwish Ainata Ahmad Hakam Omar Haouchab Ziyad Abdu Mur`ib [?] Aandqet road List of persons injured from 19 July to 0800 hours on 20 July 2006 (total 102) Name Place Nationality Comments Qahad Baitar Nabatiyah Mabdi Hamid Nabatiyah Ali Hamid Nabatiyah Maryam Hamid Nabatiyah Unidentified person Ramish Not known Unidentified person Ramish Not known Unidentified person Ramish Not known Salim Ayman Barakat Al-Shawint Azzam Yamint Nabatiyah Sanah Hussayn Alawan Loubie Khalid Al Sahna Loubie Na’im Sa’id Al-Sa’d Loubie Muhammad Sa’id Abu Arabi Loubie Fadi Farah Aalma Al-Shab Fadi Farah Aalma Al-Shab Fadi Farah Aalma Al-Shab Muhammad Murad Ham Bashri Hussayn Shukr Al-Nabu Shit Sabhiyyah Al Haj Sinn En Nabi Shit Abbas Kammun Hawsh Basma Maysam Balhas Hawsh Basma Khadijah Hawadhah Hawsh Basma Sajid Faqih Hawsh Basma Lina Al-Mustafah Hawsh Basma Latifah Farahat Hawsh Basma Narjis Faqih Hawsh Basma Ibrahim Haydar Hawsh Basma Hisam Ibrahim Haydar Hawsh Basma Ansaf Haydar Hawsh Basma Zainab Hisam Haydar Hawsh Basma Ahmad Qasim Balhas Hawsh Basma Ali Hamzah Abbas Hawsh Basma Fatimah Kashmar Hawsh Basma Khalid Hussayn Al-Nasim Al-Burgheliyah Amal Kamil Al-Ahmad Al-Burgheliyah Ahmad Abd Al-Radha Najm Al-Ghaziyah Egyptian Al-Daqudiy Muhammad Hathmiy Al-Ghaziyah Egyptian Muhammad Daqud Al-Aymiy Al-Ghaziyah Egyptian Unknown person Al-Ghaziyah Egyptian Unknown person Al-Ghaziyah Egyptian Ibrahim Najim Al-Ghaziyah Lieutenant Colonel Fuad Osman Bint Jubayl Internal security Ali Khawajah Bint Jubayl Internal security Hamad Qarbani Bint Jubayl Internal security Sergeant Jawni Al-Qadhmani Bint Jubayl Police force Al-Raqd Joseph Al-Hashim Bint Jubayl Police force Lance Corporal Ilyas Abboud Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Staff Sergeant Ali Hammiyah Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Regimental Sergeant Major Adnan Abdullah Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Staff Sergeant Ahil Al-Ali Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Staff Sergeant Georges Abu Salibi Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Staff Sergeant Zakariya Al-Maqdad Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Staff Sergeant Muhammad Al-Qasim Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Staff Sergeant Arif Al-Hajj Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Muhammad Faris Bint Jubayl Resistance forces Lance Corporal Fuad Haddad Bint Jubayl Police force Private Hadi Al-Halu Bint Jubayl Police force Private Ra’id Bazi Bint Jubayl Police force Muhammad Al-Sayyid Hawish Bisma Palestinian Hadi Muhammad Yatil Hawish Bisma Marim Mahmoud Dahini Hawish Bisma Khalil Ali Dhadhil Hawish Bisma Ibrahim Rida Qasim Haouch Basma Ali Yusuf Jalas Sadiqin Muhammad Abdul Husayn Jalas Sadiqin Zaynab Ali Jalas Sadiqin Darin Yusuf Al-Charakir Layla Ibrahim Ibrahim Al-Charakir Haydar Yusuf Al-Charakir Huda Dawoud Al-Khalid Debbine Huwayda Dawoud Al-Khalid Debbine Sulayman Al-Khalid Debbine Muhammad Ni`me Marwe Ansariye Ali Hasan Abbas Ansariye Wa’il Badran Ansariye Ali Husayn Farhat Ansariye Samih Dakrub Ainata Hiyam Darwish Ainata Sulayman Ali Mazhi Blida Ali Ibrahim Blida Ala’ Musa Blida Abbas Ali Barjawi Blida Zaynab Muhammad Jawwad Blida Rabi Ahmad Jawwad Blida Majda Muhammad Hashim Zebdine Ahmad Muhammad Jawwad Zebdine Ali Abdul Rida Jawwad Zebdine Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Basim Muhanna Srifa Husayn Jamil Abbas Sadiqin Dalib Kumar Taanayel Ras Budi Taanayel Suad Ahmad Al-Husayni Taanayel Syrian In serious condition Asra’ Ahmad Al-Husayni Taanayel Syrian Ahmad Ali Al-Kurdi Taanayel Syrian Hani Diyab Haydar Blida Rula Muhammad Ibrahim Blida Al-Arif Umar Umar Al-Haouchab-Akkar Health classification agency Walid Ali Umar Al-Haouchab-Akkar Salim Muhammad Darwish Al-Karak Jihad Muhammad Darwish Al-Karak Sergeant Bassam Aweishaq Al-Karak (Engineers) Aliye Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Hasan Ghamlouch Srifa Afife Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Maryam Ali Muhanna Srifa Abbas Ismail Khalil Srifa Khadr Muhammad Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Zinat Nazi Srifa Rafiqe Muhammad Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Zaynab Muhammad Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Amal Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Khadr Ali Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Ramzi Khadr Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Ali Faqih Srifa Nabil Khadr Ala’ Al-Din Srifa Human losses from Israeli attacks 19 July 2006 to 0800 hours on 20 July 2006 Date Place Injured Killed Comments 19-20 July 2006 Nabatiye 5 5 1 Sri Lankan woman Rmaich 3 2 Al-Choueifat 1 1 Loussi 4 1 Elma al-Chaab 3 1 Jouaita 0 1 Maaraboun 0 5 Ham 1 Al-Nabi Chit 2 7 Haouch Basma 18 4 Qana 0 2 Two died from injuries sustained on 14 July 2006 Al-Bourgheliye 2 Al-Ghaziye 6 1 Bent Jbail 17 Al-Qlaile 1 Sadiqin 4 Al-Chawakir 3 Debbine 3 3 Ansariye 4 Ainata 2 3 Blida 5 Zebdine 6 Srifa 2 Taanayel 5 2 Indians and 3 Syrians Al-Houchab 2 2 Al-Karak 3 Including an army staff sergeant Srifa 14 Total 116 116 38 Total soldiers killed: 0 Overall total to date 861 250 Total soldiers killed: 20 Total soldiers injured: 126 It should be noted that there are casualties lying under the rubble of homes, including in Srifa. Saturday, 22 July 2006 On Saturday, the eleventh day of the open Israeli aggression against Lebanon, night and morning raids in the Tyre areas completed the destruction of the Litani crossings, thereby separating its banks. The same was true of the Bent Jbail area, where villages are still seeking help in removing the bodies from under the debris. Yesterday, 21 July 2006, Israeli military aircraft carried out over 300 raids, mostly centred on the areas of Tyre and Baalbek, and the bombing of roads and bridges in the different areas continued. Large numbers of casualties still lie among the ruins of homes devastated by bombs in various southern villages, where appeals for help increased from beleaguered villagers asking for first aid and medicines, evacuation of the injured and removal of the bodies of casualties. Inhabitants of the village of Aitaroun appealed to humanitarian organizations for the evacuation of 50 children under siege beneath the premises of the village pharmacy. The number of displaced persons now stands at approximately one million and the Prime Minister, Mr. Fouad Siniora, estimates that 350 individuals have thus far been killed, most recently an eight-year-old girl who was playing on her bicycle in front of the home of relatives in the village of Jabal al-Botm (Tyre). Over 1,000 persons have also been injured. In the city of Tyre, funeral ceremonies have been performed for 74 of those killed, who were buried in a mass grave, as there was no room for the bodies in the city hospital and not all of them could be taken to their villages. As a result of the wood and forest fires caused by Israeli bombs, fuel leaked from storage areas at the Jiyye electrical plant that was earlier targeted by bombing. The result has been to pollute the coastline in Beirut and further away in Al-Maameltayne, which is an environmental disaster. The southern suburbs of Beirut Military aircraft launched raids on the southern suburbs targeted at a commercial residential building several storeys high in Bir Al-Abd. The bombing extended to the Haret Hreik area. Tyre Military aircraft launched over 100 raids, averaging one every quarter of an hour and extending to communities and villages throughout the area. Fire broke out in the village woods of Al-Abbasiye and a timber workshop and two water bores in Batoulay were destroyed, along with a facility for the production of vaccines and medical items in Tair Debba and three homes in the village of Maaroub. In the village of Srifa, 30 bodies are still under rubble and humanitarian organizations have been unable to reach them for removal. For the second time in a week, Israeli aircraft targeted the observer post of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqura, causing serious damage. Nabatiye An attack on the town’s commercial market led to one death and five injuries among citizens. Israeli military aircraft bombed bridges, roads and civilian facilities throughout the area. Bent Jbail Israeli military aircraft conducted several raids on the border village of Aitaroun, injuring 13 citizens from one family. Cries for help were heard coming from under the debris of homes targeted by the bombing. The deputy head of the municipality said that there was a virtual genocide of civilians taking place in the village and that it was impossible for rescue teams to reach the village. The occupation forces dropped cluster bombs on the village of Blida. Lebanon’s Joint Security Forces came under periodic shelling while distributing bread to the village inhabitants. Their vehicle was destroyed and three soldiers were wounded. In Ayta al-Chaab, the head of the municipality said that the village was experiencing tremendous difficulties as a result of the siege and was short of food and medical supplies. Military aircraft raided an official school in the village of Ainata and families hiding in the school were miraculously spared. The Bent Jbail training school was bombed, injuring 25 of the displaced inhabitants who had taken refuge there. Military aircraft completed destruction of the area’s fuel stations, thereby imposing a full siege. Marjaayoun Military aircraft launched three raids on the village of Al-Khayyam, targeting and destroying three houses. Al-Arqoub Enemy positions launched approximately 2,500 bombs, including phosphorus bombs, cluster bombs and penetrating bombs, damaging houses, property and wooded areas in the surrounding villages. Sidon and Jazin Raids extended to several villages in the district of Sidon and Jazin.   sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/60/953 sss2 \* MERGEFORMAT S/2006/565 sss1 \* MERGEFORMAT A/60/953 sss2 \* MERGEFORMAT S/2006/565 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-44187 \* MERGEFORMAT 24 \* MERGEFORMAT 23 FooterJN \* MERGEFORMAT 06-44187 United Nations A/60/953–S/2006/565 General Assembly Security Council Distr.: General 24 July 2006 English Original: Arabic jobn \* MERGEFORMAT 06-44187 (E) 260706 260706 Barcode \* MERGEFORMAT *0644187*