American Morning (CNN) - 2006-07-31 (partial) - 2 of 2

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[0:00] Can you hear me?

[0:00] >> Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.

[0:02] >> Fantastic.

[0:03] >> Wonderful. Let's begin again, then I'll

[0:04] repeat my question. I want to start with

[0:06] the numbers. 644 more or less Lebanese

[0:09] civilians and soldiers have been killed.

[0:11] Well over 2,000 have been injured.

[0:14] Israel would say those numbers are so

[0:16] high because Hezbollah is basically

[0:19] putting troops and its fighters in the

[0:22] residential areas, hospitals, schools,

[0:25] homes. How do you respond to those

[0:27] charges?

[0:29] absolutely wrong. I mean is not

[0:31] launching any attacks against the

[0:33] northern towns of occupied Palestine

[0:36] from residential areas from hospitals or

[0:38] schools. Actually this has been proved

[0:40] even by military experts. They say the

[0:42] kind of rockets that is launching can

[0:44] never be in any way launched from

[0:46] residential areas because those people

[0:48] who are launching them will be killed.

[0:49] So it needs open fielded it needs

[0:51] valleys and orchards and you have many

[0:53] of them in south of Lebanon. This is one

[0:54] thing Alzbah is fighting in the

[0:56] borderline and in the bordering villages

[0:58] with occupied Palestine, inflicting

[1:00] damage on the Israeli soldiers and

[1:02] personnel and the military personnel in

[1:04] the first place.

[1:05] >> So you're saying that those 2,000

[1:06] rockets that have already been fired

[1:08] into Israel, those have all come from

[1:10] basically barren areas, nowhere near

[1:12] residential areas as Israel would claim.

[1:16] >> Absolutely. I mean they have to produce

[1:17] any proof about that. They said

[1:19] something about during the Ghana

[1:20] massacre, the famous Khana that they

[1:22] committed the massacre that launched

[1:24] rockets from that area and then after

[1:26] one day they said no, there has never

[1:28] been any kind of launching rockets. They

[1:30] don't need I mean after all Hezbollah is

[1:32] not going to launch these kind of

[1:33] rockets from residential areas for one

[1:35] simple clear reason. They are fighting

[1:37] to defend their people. Their families

[1:39] are there, their fathers, mothers, sons

[1:41] and daughters. How can they possibly do

[1:43] something to kill their own families?

[1:45] Let's talk a little bit about the

[1:47] civilian casualties, frankly, on both

[1:49] sides of this conflict. This is what the

[1:51] Israeli Prime Minister Omar uh had to

[1:54] say. Take a listen if you will.

[1:57] >> Every time a civilian is killed by an

[2:00] Israeli, we consider it as a failure and

[2:04] we regret it very much because it's

[2:06] never been our strategy and we don't

[2:09] want to achieve it. Would Hezbollah say

[2:12] the same thing about the civilians

[2:14] who've been killed in this conflict? The

[2:15] 27 Israeli civilians, many of them

[2:18] children, who've been killed?

[2:20] Absolutely. I mean, what from the very

[2:23] beginning, they are not targeting

[2:24] civilian targets. They are fighting

[2:26] military for military. It's the Israelis

[2:28] who has started this. Ever since Hazbah

[2:30] made this operation and captured