Third of Lebanon casualties are children, says UN

Irish Examiner

Nearly one third of all casualties in the Lebanon-Israel conflict have been children, according to the United Nations emergency relief co-ordinator, Jan Egeland.

He said it appeared neither Hezbollah nor the Israelis seemed to care about civilian suffering.

Nearly a third of the dead or wounded were children and the wounded could not be helped because roads and bridges had been cut by Israeli air strikes. Link

db: And Britain, with the US, is blocking an immediate ceasefire - in defiance of the UN.