Disproportionate Response

"Hezbollah fired more than 100 Katyusha rockets at Israel on Wednesday, killing two brothers from Nazareth, aged 9 and 3, and sending 135 people to the hospital in Nazareth alone.

The two siblings, Rabia Abed Taluzi and his older brother Mahmoud, were killed by a direct hit from a rocket in the yard of their family home in Nazareth on their way to visit their uncle in a nearby house, the Israel Defense Forces said. It was the first time the town had been attacked.

Some friend and relatives gathering to mourn the Taluzi boys said that even though the brothers were killed by a Hezbollah rocket, they should be added to the list of Lebanese casualties.

'The Israeli government is to blame for the incident,' said a Nazareth resident near the house of mourning. 'The Israeli aggression must stop.'"
(Cox & Forkum, Haaretz, 20.07.2006)