I have continued to use the UK Guardian's numbers for Lebanese civilian dead, since they're a respected source (if you have more than anecdotal, selective evidence to the contrary, please post that in the comments) and they are the
only news source [update > I was wrong: FoxNews provides the same figures!] to provide a definite number. I would have stopped using them if they hadn't fixed yesterday's botched reporting on the number of Israelis killed by the Hezbollah.
Send money if you can to the Lebanese people. After all, your taxes, if you are American, buy the bombs that have leveled much of Lebanon's civilian infrastructure. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies accepts donations at ifrc.org.
The press survey starts below. Sorry, only five today, busy!
UK Guardian
Israel launched its attacks on Lebanon after Hizbullah guerrillas killed three soldiers and captured two others in a cross-border raid on July 12. At least 381 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 20 soldiers and 11 Hizbullah fighters, according to security officials.
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have fled their homes.
Israel's death toll stands at 37, with 17 killed by Hizbullah rockets and 20 soldiers dead in the fighting. Sixty-eight soldiers have been wounded and 255 civilians injured by rocket fire, officials said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Reuters
On her way to the region, Rice said she wanted to create conditions for a sustainable ceasefire in a war that has cost 373 dead in Lebanon and at least 37 Israeli lives in 13 days. ...
Rockets have killed 17 Israelis since the start of the war, launched after Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a raid across the border on July 12. Twenty soldiers have also died.
http://today.reuters.com/...
BBC
BBC has ended its offensive use of the word "many" in reference to how many of the Lebanese killed are civilians. Don't ignore that this change toward accuracy was probably the result of BBC readers writing in and complaining (although the mainstream media won't tell us stuff like that). We do have an impact, if there are enough of us.
At least 372 Lebanese, the great majority civilians, have been killed during the conflict, which is now into its 13th day. Thirty-seven Israelis have been killed, about half of them civilians.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
CNN
Perhaps CNN exceeds FoxNews in pro-Israeli bias. Two pieces of evidence: it consistently lowballs the number of Lebanese who have been killed, and the title on the lead-in page for this, its survey article, is Israel takes aim at Hezbollah 'terror capital'.
Lebanese authorities reported Monday that 275 people have died and 727 have been wounded since the conflict began.
Israel said 17 civilians and 20 soldiers have died and more than 300 civilians and more than 60 soldiers have been wounded.
http://www.cnn.com/...
FoxNews
Below are the last two paragraphs of a long article.
At least 381 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 20 soldiers and 11 Hezbollah fighters, according to security officials. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese have fled their homes.
Israel's death toll stands at 37, with 17 people killed by Hezbollah rockets and 20 soldiers killed in the fighting. Sixty-eight soldiers have been wounded, and 255 civilians injured by rocket fire, officials said.
http://www.foxnews.com/...