One of the dead was Fouad Foudhi, a local communist who worked as a volunteer for Lebanese popular rescue. When a bomb hit a local building he went immediately to rescue the people inside. He was followed from the sky by an unmanned drone, which fired two small missiles at him as he ran down the street.

The more I hear about the so-called drones the more they turn my stomach. Essentially these tiny unmanned aircraft are for surveillance; they carry state of the art camera equipment and watch from very high up. However they also carry small missiles, which are used to attack vehicles and people. Again and again I have been shown civilian cars and buses that have been destroyed by these devices, killing all inside. The bit that really gives me the shivers is that somewhere, an Israel a man or woman is sat by a computer screen steering the craft and firing its missiles at whatever target they select. To be blunt, they are playing a computer game with real people’s lives. Most military analysts believe that this is the shape of things to come.

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