Summaries here and here and here.

Is the official intention to scour the land of people?

“I think the Israelis are contemplating flattening villages down to the last house,” said Richard Morczynski, UNIFIL’s [United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon] political officer. Article

Robert Fisk’s dispatch regarding Qana.

And there was no doubt of the missile which killed all those children yesterday. It came from the United States, and upon a fragment of it was written: “For use on MK-84 Guided Bomb BSU-37-B”. No doubt the manufacturers can call it “combat-proven” because it destroyed the entire three-storey house in which the Shalhoub and Hashim families lived. They had taken refuge in the basement from an enormous Israeli bombardment, and that is where most of them died. Article

Lots and lots of reports mention that civilians have been warned to “get out.” And others report that many are attempting to do so, including leaving Lebanon for about the only place there is to readily go: Syria.

In what universe, then, does it make a scintilla of sense to destroy refugees’ routes, travel capability and border crossings?

Israeli warplanes struck the main Beirut-Damascus highway border crossing at Masnaa for the third time on Monday, wounding four customs employees and a civilian, security sources said. A customs post on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria was bombed midday in an attack that destroyed a civilian vehicle. The main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria was also pounded Saturday. Massive craters from Israel’s air strikes have effectively closed the road.

But some travelers were seen abandoning their vehicles at the border Sunday, carrying their luggage and walking on foot across the border into Syria, where they hopped into taxis and continued their journey.

The sole remaining highway to Syria is via Tripoli and into Tartous in Syria. Unpaved roads into Syria exist from the Hermil, Qaa and Baalbek area, but as the main roads into Baalbek and across the Bekaa Valley have also been targeted by Israeli warplanes, the drive can be arduous at best. Article