Lebanon: the conflict strikes the children hard…

BEIRUT (AP) - a third of the hundreds of civil killed in Lebanon since the beginning of the Israeli offensive is children, as at least the 34 who perished Sunday in Cana.
As for those which have escaped with the bombardments, much will remain a long time traumatized by what the adults should have saved to them: visions of died and destruction.
Beyond the many lives mown in their youth, the psychological cost undergone by the surviving children is him also considerable. “You cannot escape the noise from the bombs”, explains Nadine Maalouf, a psychologist for children who works with children Lebanese traumatized by the war.
Violence, the Lebanese one lived a long time with. They suffered from it during the 15 years from the civil war (1975-1990) and the Israeli invasion from 1982.
But the young people who knew this long period of conflict, become today parents, hoped to be able to protect their own children from these horrors.
Instead of that, they are found again impotent vis-a-vis the uninterrupted bombardments of aviation and the artillery Israelis which destroy whole districts in the south of Lebanon and certain suburbs of Beirut. “There was a plane which made a noise of pffff”, small Nour el-Hoda Cherri, 11 years tells, which still remembers at which point it trembled during the bombardment of its district of Haret Hreik, when its building was destroyed.
“My heart hurt me. It beat too quickly”, she says while pressing on its chest. “I said myself: “that is there, one will die, it is our destiny, God will punish me for all the things not although I made”.” And to quote the banal silly things of its age: to lie to his/her mother, to hide things with his/her parents, to push a young girl younger than her…
The assistant secretary general of UNO to the humane businesses Jan Egeland estimated Friday that a third from the 400 to 600 people killed in Lebanon was children.
The Israeli offensive also caused to make flee and move hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, which found refuge in schools, parks or underground car parks in surer areas of the country. It will be necessary years before all the houses are not rebuilt. Meanwhile, the children will have to thus live in places which will not be familiar for them.
According to the psychologist Nadine Maalouf, the effects of the traumatism will be felt even hard after the war, when these young people cannot still return on their premises and miss “reference mark”: friends, places of plays favourite, the store where they bought their dairy ice creams. The children whom it has met for one or two weeks present various symptoms, energy of the depression to hypertension while passing by the loss of reference mark. Many parents also note that their children became aggressive and disobeying because of the lack of framework and discipline.
The majority of the refugees come from areas mainly Shiites, in the south of the country, where is established the radical militia Shiite of Hezbollah, target of the Israeli attacks since it captured two soldiers on July 12 and car of the rockets against the Jewish State. And, another consequence of the offensive of Tsahal, many moved children of these zones, especially the boys, aspire to join the armed struggle against Israel.
“I want to be avenged for the Israelis”, clamp Ali Kalache, 14 years, originating in a district bombarded by the forces of the Hebrew State. At one time, the teenager wanted to become airline pilot. Even thing for Hussein Mqachar, 11 years, which always smelled a heart of chief and wants to join “resistance today”, name given to Hezbollah by its partisans.
As for Jamil Qbeis, 13 years, it dreamed to become surgeon. Now, it in the rows of the Party of God, “because Israel destroys us, kills to us and”

Which future for this area with all the sufferings moves us hopes from here a few years to fight which his/her children will have undergone?