Posted by
Dawnsblood on Friday, January 12, 2007 10:27:46 PM
Michael uncovers
the truth of what happened during the Hezbollah-Israel war.
I turned my voice recorder back on, but I didn’t realize until later
that it got stuck on “pause.” So I’ll have to paraphrase what he said
next.
He told me that 18 days after the start of the war a large group of
civilians decided it was time to leave Ain Ebel and flee to the north.
They were no longer willing to stay while Israel fired back at
Hezbollah’s rocket launchers. It was too dangerous, and Hezbollah
insisted on staying and endangering those who lived there.
So they fled the area in a convoy of civilian vehicles. It was safer, they figured, to travel in a group than alone.
On their way out of the village, Hezbollah fighters stood on the
side of the road and opened fire with machine guns on the fleeing
civilians.
I was shocked, and I asked Alan to confirm this. Was it really true? Hezbollah opened fire on Lebanese civilians with machine guns? Alan confirmed this was true.
"Why?" I had an idea, but I wanted a local person to say it.
Because, Alan said, Hezbollah wanted to use the civilians of Ain
Ebel as “human shields.” I did not use the phrase “human shields.”
These were Alan’s own words.