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Wrapped in blankets and plastic bags bound tightly with tape, the bodies were lowered from the truck into simple pine-board coffins doused with a chemical spray to mask - without much success - the cloying odor of death. With the numbers of dead steadily rising with each passing day, the initial victims of Israel's 10-day onslaught against South Lebanon.

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