...A few thousand civilians stayed? Look at the photo above and the others at the Reuters story linked above. That kind of bombardment of a densely-populated area has been going on for days. Don't you suppose the "more than 20" reported killed is the tip of the iceberg? Why are the AP and Reuters not even bothering to provide an accurate count of the reported civilian casualties, much less an estimate of actual civilian casualties?

Why are civilian casualties barely worth noticing this summer? Last July, when Israel's precision strikes against Hezbollah occasionally produced civilian casualties, AP and Reuters cranked out an endless series of breathless stories and photos documenting every last corpse and grieving woman. Where are the "green helmet man"? Why are AP and Reuters so much less interested in civilians killed by Lebanese than civilians killed by Israelis?...

...And if this were Israel attacking a Palestinian camp with heavy weaponry and wiping out hundreds of people, imagine the screams of outrage we’d hear from media and “human rights” groups. When it’s Arabs killing Arabs, the silence is deafening...