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Zaged Melhem, 36, a Lebanese civilian, was walking from his home in southern Beirut early Friday morning. It was still dark outside as he made his way across a bridge in his neighborhood and at once became the nearly 700th victim of an Israeli air strike. He told me he barely heard a thing before he was thrown more than 30 feet through the air with shrapnel piercing his feet and hands, and straight through his abdominal wall into his intestine. Luckily, he lived to tell about it. His best friend, who walking with...
...Zaged had several things working against him last Friday morning. First off, there was the timing. The air strikes appear to be worst late at night and early morning. Also, he was walking on a bridge, now well known targets as the city of Beirut is slowly cut off from the rest of the country. He did, however, have a huge advantage. He was hit close to Mount Lebanon Hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Just 1 kilometer from Hizbollah headquarters, this private hospital has stayed open when most of the businesses around have shut down...
...After making it to Beirut, we] started driving to the hotel north of the city...While we were passing a port, it was struck by Israeli fire...
...Beirut was beautiful, but marred by plumes of smoke. That night our hotel shook [from the] bombardment...
...Other officials blame the Lebanese government, asking why Caritas, a Christian charity, managed to dispatch five trucks of food from Beirut to Tyre in the previous week, while the government has sent nothing...