Since yesterday, Israel has killed 17 more Lebanese civilians and the Hezbollah has killed 3 more Israeli civilians, according to the most reliable official sources.
Press Coverage of Civilian Casualties:
For the last three days AP has provided the plain numbers of civilians and non-civilians killed on both sides of the conflict, making use of -- I believe (based on intermittent attribution) -- official health ministry figures for its Lebanon totals. If this had been routine three weeks ago, and it was not in regard to Lebanese casualties, I would not have thought of generating this daily diary on the press coverage and non-coverage of civilians killed in the Lebanon-Israel conflict. Let's hope AP keeps the common-sense informational reporting going.
Mucking things up a little, Reuters quotes the Lebanese Health Minister, who provides much higher numbers than does AP. So some confusion continues, in part because AP fails to attribute its numbers.
AP/Yahoo
Hezbollah fired its deadliest rocket barrage Sunday on Israel, killing 12 Israeli reservists and three civilians. That brought the Israeli death toll to 97, including 49 soldiers, the 12 reservists and 36 civilians.
Israel's attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 617 people, including 524 civilians, 29 Lebanese soldiers and at least 53 Hezbollah guerrillas.
http://news.yahoo.com/...
FoxNews/AP
It credits the report at the top as its own, but provides the two AP paragraphs unedited.
Hezbollah fired its deadliest rocket barrage Sunday on Israel, killing 12 Israeli reservists and three civilians. That brought the Israeli death toll to 94, including 46 soldiers, the 12 reservists and 36 civilians.
Israel's attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 607 people, including 524 civilians, 29 Lebanese soldiers and at least 53 Hezbollah guerrillas.
http://www.foxnews.com/...
CNN
CNN continues to provide the Lebanese security forces figure for how many have been killed, and perhaps the security ministry does not distinguish civilian and non-civilian deaths. My impression is the lower Lebanese health ministry figures, used by AP, are more certain and `confirmed'.
Monday marks the 27th day of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. So far the conflict has resulted in 97 Israeli deaths, including 35 civilians, the IDF said; in Lebanon, security forces put the death toll at 716, most of them civilians.
http://www.cnn.com/...
Reuters
Reuters quotes Lebanon's Health Minister, which really creates some confusion. My guess is that he is reciting numbers provided by the security forces, and not by his own ministry. Israeli civilian and non-civilian deaths are not distinguished, although that information is freely available.
Lebanese Health Minister Mohammad Khalifeh said the war had killed 925 people, mostly civilians, with 75 missing, presumed dead. The toll did not include Monday's casualties. About one-third of the dead were children under the age of 13.
Ninety-seven Israelis have also been killed.
http://today.reuters.com/...
AFP
The Israeli army said one soldier was killed in fighting with Hezbollah around the border town of Bint Jbeil -- the scene of the fiercest ground combat of the conflict, bringing to 59 the number of military personnel killed.
Another 36 civilians have been killed in a barrage of Hezbollah rocket fire from across the border since the offensive began on July 12. Five more were injured on Monday when a new volley of rockets landed in northern Israel.
According to official tolls, more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and around 3,500 wounded in the offensive, which has also forced more than 915,000 out of their homes and left the country's economy in ruins since it was launched on July 12.
http://www.afp.com/...
UK Guardian
The Guardian's second Lebanon conflict story on its main news page provides the totals killed, but obscures the civilian/non-civilian distinction.
At least 19 Lebanese civilians died in Israeli air attacks yesterday, and the Lebanese health minister, Mohammad Khalifeh, today told Reuters that 925 people had so far been killed in the conflict, one third of them aged under 13. Another 75 are missing, presumed dead.
More than 90 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have been killed, with 48 dying in Hizbullah rocket attacks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
BBC
The usual lack of specificity from the BBC.
More than 900 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict, the Lebanese government said. More than 90 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/...
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Apologies: this will have to come out around this time on weekdays, sorry for the switch.