Mother and her six children killed in Israeli Lebanon raid

The seven members of the Kharakeh family were crushed to death along with another man under the rubble of their two-storey house which was destroyed in the Israeli raid close to the town of Nabatiyeh in central Lebanon.

The father, Adnan al-Kharakeh, an official with the Lebanese civil defence, was not killed in the raid. It was not clear if he had escaped or was not at home at the time of the strike Saturday.

Six civilians were also killed in an Israeli air raid on four houses in the border village of Ain Arab in southeast Lebanon, police said. UN peacekeepers were heading to the village which has been cut off from the rest of the country by Israeli bombardment of the main road.

The village is next to Ghajar, a disputed border village which is partly occupied by Israel.

The deaths bring to 453 the number of people killed, including 382 civilians, in Lebanon by the Israeli military onslaught launched after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12, according to an AFP count.

But rescue workers say dozens more civilians, including a large number of children, are still buried underneath the rubble of houses destroyed in Israeli air strikes around Tyre.

UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland, citing the Lebanese health ministry, said on Friday that more than 600 people had been killed in Lebanon since the start of the Israeli offensive.

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