The motive was simple and comparatively cost-free: if the Lebanese villagers allowed armed Palestinians to take shelter among their homes, then they would be made to pay for it in blood.

Israel struck back with warplanes and howitzers that left Lebanese villagers dead.

By tonight, there was no evidence that the absence of an authorized evacuation order had reassured Lebanese villagers that it was safe to return home.

On a mountain road just south of here, a convoy of Lebanese villagers was fleeing north shortly after the war began.

Others in the shelter blamed the Lebanese villagers, asserting that they had given shelter to Party of God guerrillas.

Lebanese villagers have always put the family in the first place, followed by the individual.

Shortly after nightfall, Israeli aircraft fired into the convoy, containing more than a thousand Lebanese villagers.

Other than two villages, Erlich said that over all, Hezbollah did not coerce Lebanese villagers from leaving.

A1 Israeli attacks have inflicted heavy cost on Lebanese villagers.

A witness reported that at least 15 Lebanese villagers were killed on July 15 in an Israeli air strike on vehicles fleeing a village in southern Lebanon.