July 2006, Israel's War on Lebanon. My book on Mondoweiss

"Thirty months before there was Cast Lead, there was the Dahieh War, a sustained assault against Lebanon during which the Israeli military flattened an entire neighborhood of tightly packed high-rises in southern Beirut called simply "the Dahieh" (the suburb.) The vast majority of the 300,000 people who lived until then in the Dahieh had fled before the flattening began, finding shelter in other parts of Lebanon or in neighboring Syria. The inhabitants of Qana, in South Lebanon's mountainous Jabal 'Amel region, were not so "lucky". On July 30, 2006, the Israeli military bombed a house in Qana in which scores of civilians had sought refuge: Some 60 of them were killed, including at least 19 children. 

We are now approaching the fifth anniversary of that massacre in Qana. (Tragically, the village had suffered an eerily similar tragedy during a precursor Israeli assault, ten years earlier.) "

My new book Lebanon 2006 War Diaries on Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/2011/07/surviving-the-dahieh-war-rami-zurayks-war-diary-lebanon-2006.html