Presumably a tiny few are human in Lebanon too, like these
“The first victim I found was a child. I don't know if it's a girl or a boy,” he tells me afterwards. “Sorry to explain that. But it's from the stomach and up - from stomach and down there is nothing.”
In the past, the CDF crew have received phone calls telling them to evacuate a site they are attending. They assume they are from the Israelis. No such call comes on this day, so for an hour Samir and others dig deeper into the ruin.
Eventually they find a 10-year-old girl alive. She tells the rescuers that her eight-month-old brother, Mohammed, was next to her.
“After that, we started hearing the screaming of a small child,” Samir says.
and the 50 children killed last week in Gaza, and the babies who died alone in hospital after a forced evacuation this time last year.