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レバノン南部の「避難路」が「殺戮地帯」と化している。イスラエルの退去勧告の期限から一夜明けた７月２３日の日曜日、国境地帯から北に向かう道路では、ミニバンなどで脱出する住民に対して、イスラエル軍がミサイルで攻撃、レバノン赤十字社によると、車両１０台、オートバイ２台が破壊された。
英紙ガーディアン（電子版、２４日付け）で、同紙のスザンヌ・ゴールデンバーグ記者が現地から報じた。
彼女の現場からのレポートによると、２３日午前１０時過ぎ、国境から８キロから離れたカフラ地区の路上で、悲劇は起きた。
カフラから１５キロほどのところにあるエルティリ村から３台のミニバンに分乗して、北に向かって避難していたシャイタス一族に向かって、イスラエル軍が（おそらくはヘリコプターから）対戦車ミサイルを発射し、３台のうちの１台に命中した。
被弾したミニバンに乗っていたのは、５４人のシャイタス一族のうちの１９人。
３列目の後部座席にいた３人は即死し、残る１６人は被弾あるいはその直後の路外転落事故で負傷した。
救急車が駆けつけた現場に、同紙のゴールデンバーグ記者も急行し、以下のような状況を目の当たりにした。
彼女の記事の書き出しの一節を、拙訳で紹介すると、こうなる。
＊ 救急隊員はアリ少年に母親の命の維持する仕事を与えた。１２歳の少年は、彼ができることを、した。「ママ、ママ、眠っちゃだめだってば」。母親のあごを摩るりながら、アリはすすり泣いた。黒のヴェールの下で、母親の目がゆっくり閉じられていく。「死にそうだわ」と母親がため息をつくように言った。「そんなこと言っちゃだめだよ、ママ」と、アリ少年が哀願した。そして次の瞬間、アリ少年は涙ながらに地面に倒れこんだ。
イスラエル軍がレバノン南部国境地帯の住民に出した退去勧告の期限は前日の土曜日の午後７時だった。
シャイタス一族は翌日（２３日の日曜日）の朝、３台のミニバンに分乗して、リタニ川の北の安全地帯を目指し、エルティリ村を出発した。
ミニバンに分乗したのが命取りになった。
イスラエル軍はミニバンやトラックなどを「ターゲット」とみなすと再三にわたって警告していた。ヒズボラがカチューシャ・ロケットの移送に使っているとして撃破を予告していたのだ。
白旗をかかげていれば大丈夫と思ったのが、シャイタス一族の「誤算」だった。
国境から北に向かい道路は海岸沿いの道も山沿いの道も、２３日のイスラエル軍の攻撃で寸断され、ミサイル攻撃を受けた車両の残骸が道路をふさいでいる。
被弾した車両からは黒煙が上がり、車の中には遺体が収容もされず、放置されたままだ。イスラエル軍の再攻撃を恐れて、収容できないでいるのだ。
そんな殺戮地帯を、ゴールデンバーグ記者は「死の街道（Highways of death）」と書いた。
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,1827422,00.html
Blasted by a missile on the road to safety
Family ordered to flee were targeted because they were driving minivan
Suzanne Goldenberg in Kafra, Lebanon
Monday July 24, 2006
The Guardian
The ambulanceman gave Ali the job of keeping his mother alive. The 12-year-old did what he could. "Mama, mama, don't go to sleep," he sobbed, gently patting her face beneath her chin. Behind her black veil, her eyelids were slowly sinking. "I'm going to die," she sighed. "Don't say that, mama," Ali begged, and then slid to the ground in tears.
On the pavement around mother and son were the other members of the Sha'ita family, their faces spattered with each other's blood. All were in varying shades of shock and injury. A tourniquet was tied on Ali's mother's arm. A few metres away, his aunt lay motionless, the white T-shirt beneath her abaya stained red. Two sisters hugged each other and wept, oblivious to the medics tending their wounds. "Let them take me, let them take me," one screamed.
Their mother was placed on a stretcher, and lifted into the ambulance. "God is with you, mama," Ali said. She reached up with her good arm to caress his face.
The Sha'itas had thought they were on the road to safety when they set out yesterday, leaving behind a village which because of an accident of geography - it is five miles from the Israeli border - had seemed to make their home a killing ground. They had been ordered to evacuate by the Israelis.
But they were a little too slow and became separated from the other vehicles fleeing the Israeli air offensive in south Lebanon. Minutes before the Guardian's car arrived, trailing a Red Cross ambulance on its way to other civilian wounded in another town, an Israeli missile pierced the roof of the Sha'itas' white van. Three passengers sitting in the third row were killed instantly, including Ali's grandmother. Sixteen other passengers were wounded. In recent days, families like the Sha'itas are bearing the brunt of Israel's air campaign and its efforts to rid the area of civilians before ground operations. A day after Israel's deadline for people to leave their homes and flee north of the Litani river, roads which in ordinary times wind lazily through tobacco fields and banana groves have been turned into highways of death.
Plumes of smoke rise in the distance, and the road in front of us offers up signs of closer peril: car wrecks, still smoking after Israeli strikes, and abandoned vehicles with shattered rear windows. Some were direct hits by Israeli aircraft. Others were drivers who had lost control. Overhead is the menacing roar of Israeli warplanes and the buzz of drones tracking every movement.
With bridges on the main coastal roads severed by Israeli air strikes, and secondary mountain routes scarred by craters, the means of escape for Lebanese trying to follow Israel's orders are limited. "All the smaller roads leading to the coastal roads are destroyed," said a spokesman for the UN in the border town of Naqoura. "In some areas you have people pushing cars by hand through obstacles made by a rocket or a bomb." By yesterday afternoon, for many villagers, there was truly no way out.
Death came crashing into the Sha'ita family soon after 10am, in the form of an Israeli anti-tank missile, seemingly fired from an Israeli helicopter high overhead, in Kafra, about nine miles from their home. Those passengers who were not killed or injured by shards of burning metal were hurt when the van plunged into the side of a hill.
In their village of et-Tiri, the Sha'itas were an extended clan of 54 people. Between them they had three cars. When the Israeli evacuation order came, in leaflets shot out of aircraft, the family planned at first to stay. "We were at home living our lives," said Musbah Sha'ita, Ali's uncle.
By 7pm on Saturday night, the deadline set by Israel for people in about a dozen villages in south Lebanon to leave, the Sha'itas were close to panic. "Whoever could run was running," said Mr Sha'ita. "I pushed them to go."
One of their fleeing neighbours said he would send transport for them, and the next morning all 54 of the Sha'itas set out in a convoy of three white minivans. That choice of transport proved a fatal mistake.
In their leaflet campaign, the Israelis have warned repeatedly they would consider minivans, trucks and motorcyles as targets. "The minivans are a target for Israel because they can take Katyusha rockets for Hizbullah, so they do not contemplate too long," the UN official said. "They just shoot it."
Dozens of others have met a similar fate as Israeli F-16 jet fighters and attack helicopters intensify a campaign meant to cut off the supply of Hizbullah rockets, and the movement of its fighters.
But Israel's offensive is being felt across a much wider swath of south Lebanon. The Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre said 10 cars carrying civilians and three or four motorcycles had been hit by Israeli missiles yesterday. Red Cross ambulances were no safer; a spokesman said an ambulance had narrowly escaped a missile near the village of el-Qlaile, south of the city. A number of the dead, including the three members of the Sha'ita family, remained trapped in their cars because it was too dangerous to retrieve their bodies.
In Tyre, south Lebanon's main town and a stopping point on the flight to the north, the hospital received a steady flow of injured. By late afternoon there were three dead and 41 injured, two critically."They are bombing them all in their cars," said Ahmed Mrowe, the director of Jabal al-Amal hospital.
Those who choose not to flee - the UN estimates that 35%-40% of villagers are too poor or too frail to make the journey - are being left stranded.
That was the predicament facing the Sha'itas when Musbah Sha'ita urged them to flee. In a car on the way to the hospital, his ear was welded to his phone, trying to find out where his wounded relatives were, and he could not stop blaming himself.
"We put a white flag. We were doing what Israel told us to do," he says. "What more do they want of us?"
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Red Cross workers arrive at the scene of an Israeli air attack which killed three members of one family, including a grandmother, and injured 16 others. Photograph: Sean Smith/Guardian
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