From Dahr Jamail: http://tinyurl.com/etrjs

...Astoundingly, the assistant director of the Beirut Government UniversityHospital, Bilal Masri, told me today that there was a 30% casualty ratethus far-meaning that of all the people struck by bombs, 30% of them arekilled.

"This is a higher percentage than we had during the civil war," thehaggard assistant director told me while patients shuffled through thelobby of the busy hospital, one of the largest in Beirut, "And 55% ofthe casualties are children under 15 years of age...

..."The Israelis are bombing everything that moves, along with cutting somany bridges and roads, so people have been unable or too scared to comeback to work," he said, "So those of us who have stayed are eating,sleeping and working here 24 hours a day. I myself have barely slept inthe last 13 days."It was still sinking in that the casualty rate was so incredibly high,so I asked him how that could be."The Israelis are using new kinds of bombs, and these bombs canpenetrate bomb shelters," he explained sternly, "They are bombing therefugees in the bomb shelters!"