2006年VOA标准英语-Israeli Strike Kills More Than 50 People in Sou

By Challiss McDonough
Qana, Lebanon
30 July 2006

Among others, the body of a child recovered under the rubble¹ of a demolished² building that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles at the village of Qana is placed in an ambulance, July 30, 2006   
  
An Israeli airstrike on the village of Qana has killed at least 54 people, more than half of them children, with other bodies believed buried in rubble. Israel says it was trying to attack Hezbollah, a group the State Department has designated a terrorist organization.

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An ambulance races into Qana to grimly transport the dead.

Residents of nearby buildings were too terrified to emerge from their homes for hours after the attack, until the Red Cross arrived after daybreak. Then they began fleeing the area on foot.

Locals are calling it a massacre³. That is a word already associated in Lebanon with the town of Qana. In 1996, Israel bombed a U.N. position here, killing⁴ more than 100 civilians⁵ who were sheltering there. The memorial to that catastrophe⁶ stands amid the devastation⁷ on the town's main road.

A few meters away from the destroyed building in Qana, Mehdi Chalhoub said his sister and her three children were killed.

He points down the street and says, "The Israelis bombed that other building over there three days ago, so everyone was sleeping in the basement of this building when the Israelis bombed it too, last night."

Israel says the Qana area is being used by Hezbollah to launch rockets against Israel, and civilians living in and around the town had been repeatedly warned to leave. Israeli officials say Hezbollah is intentionally⁸ using women and children as shields in areas from which it launches attacks against Israeli civilians.

 
Civil Defence workers carry a blanket with bodies of two children recovered from under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles at the village of Qana, July 30, 2006 
  
Rescue workers dug through the rubble in Qana to extract the bodies of women and children.

Red Cross medic Daoud Kahawaji said, "They were all civilians. Not one of them was a fighter. They were children. A lot of them were handicapped and could not be moved."

Most of the victims are from the Chalhoub family, one of the largest in the area.

Mehdi Chalhoub says, "The Israelis cannot find Hezbollah, but they can find women and children, so they are killing these innocent people instead." 

The ambulances brought the victims' remains⁹ back to the government hospital in Tyre.

There, doctors and soldiers struggled to control a furious crowd, who became more enraged¹⁰ as each dead child was laid out on plastic sheets on the ground.

The children were frozen in the positions they had been sleeping in when the bombs fell. Their small bodies and faces were bruised¹¹ and bloodied¹². Some of their mouths were filled with dirt.

They were wrapped in plastic sheets and body bags, their names affixed¹³ to the bags with tape.

The refrigerated truck that bodies are stored in had just emptied the day before with a mass burial. It is already filling up again, with the bodies of children.

Inside the hospital, a few survivors¹⁴ who had been sleeping in the building next door were treated for injuries. In her hospital bed, a weeping Rabab Yousuf learned that her six-year-old daughter Zeinab had been killed.

She says, "If I go to God now, I will not complain. My daughter was a gift from God, and now God has taken her away."

Yousuf's four-year-old son Hassan lay in another hospital bed with a head wound. Her husband, Mohamed Ali Chalhoub, lay in the bed next to her. He was paralyzed from the waist down in a previous injury, and his wife dug him from the rubble with her bare hands.

"Israel is well known in terrorism, and unfortunately all the world and the United States support Israel, and they pretend they are working for humanity, but they are not," he said.

A relative of some victims, Sana Faraj, said the more civilians that Israel kills, the more people will support Hezbollah. She, too, recalls what happened in Qana in 1996.

She says, "The Israelis bombed our town before. It was a massacre. It seems that they take pleasure from the bombing of Qana."

Against the background of history, this new attack has touched a raw nerve in Lebanon. A mob in Beirut attacked a U.N. office, smashing the windows and taking over the building.

Thousands of people spontaneously took to the streets of the capital, waving Lebanese and Hezbollah flags and denouncing the United States, the United Nations, the West and the Arab world for doing nothing to stop the slaughter¹⁵. 

1 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

2 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

3 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

4 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

5 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

6 catastrophe   

n.大灾难，大祸

参考例句：

• I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。
• This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

7 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 intentionally   

ad.故意地，有意地

参考例句：

• I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
• The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。

9 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

10 enraged   

使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 )； 歜； 激愤

参考例句：

• I was enraged to find they had disobeyed my orders. 发现他们违抗了我的命令，我极为恼火。
• The judge was enraged and stroke the table for several times. 大法官被气得连连拍案。

11 bruised   

[医]青肿的，瘀紫的

参考例句：

• his bruised and bloodied nose 他沾满血的青肿的鼻子
• She had slipped and badly bruised her face. 她滑了一跤，摔得鼻青脸肿。

12 bloodied   

v.血污的( bloody的过去式和过去分词 )；流血的；屠杀的；残忍的

参考例句：

• his bruised and bloodied nose 他沾满血的青肿的鼻子
• His pants leg was torn and bloodied when he fell. 他跌交时裤腿破了，还染上了血。 来自辞典例句

13 affixed   

adj.[医]附着的，附着的v.附加( affix的过去式和过去分词 )；粘贴；加以；盖（印章）

参考例句：

• The label should be firmly affixed to the package. 这张标签应该牢牢地贴在包裹上。
• He affixed the sign to the wall. 他将标记贴到墙上。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

15 slaughter   

n.屠杀，屠宰；vt.屠杀，宰杀

参考例句：

• I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
• Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。