You gotta be fucking kidding me

Tell me this is some kind of hideous mistake. Please. Not "oops!" or "We thought there might have been some hezbollah types in there...", but "we're gnashing our teeth and rending our garments as we speak for committing such an egregious error." I'm not counting on it though.

In Sunday's attack, Chaalan was thrown backward while the other medics rushed to pull the wounded from the smashed vehicle. As they pulled the child out, the Israelis struck again, blowing up the second ambulance.

"I felt like I was dying," Chaalan said Monday, after his release from a hospital. "I thought, 'I'm dead.' "

Fortunately, he was only stunned and needed three stitches to close a wound on his chin.

After the attack, a Red Cross volunteer reached the organization's headquarters in Tyre, which relayed news of the assault to the International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva. After nearly two hours of negotiations, the Israelis guaranteed safe passage for the volunteers and the wounded back to Tyre.

Despite a donation of blood from Chaalan, the wounded man, 40-year-old Ahmed Mustafa Farwaz, lost his right leg below the knee, while his son Mohammed Farwaz, 14, remained in serious condition with shrapnel wounds to his abdomen. The elder Farwaz's unidentified mother suffered severe nerve damage to her legs.

But hey, I'm sure they dropped some leaflets telling people to not be in the area and to be sure to blame Hezbollah if they don't like being picked off on while on the run like pheasants in one of Dick Cheney's hunting trips. Hezbollah wouldn't have had the decency to do that much.

UPDATE: You've gotta be fucking kidding me, part II. Israel kills 4 U.N. observers, including a Canadian, a Chinese, an Austrian and a Finn. Kofi Annan is calling the attack deliberate.

Annan said in his statement the post had been there for a long time and was marked clearly, and was hit despite assurances from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that UN positions would not be attacked.

"I call on the government of Israel to conduct a full investigation into this very disturbing incident and demand that any further attack on UN positions and personnel must stop," Annan said in the statement.

It's a shocking accusation. If true, it's a shocking indictment. I can't believe bring myself to belief that Israel would be this stupid. Who's going to want to bail Israel out with boots on the ground if this is how the IDF treats citizens of other countries?