"The Ones Who Are Buried Alive Are Usually Safe From the Dogs"

An on the ground report of Israel's total destruction of the Hay el-Birki neighborhood of the village of Srifa.

"It was an unseemly end for 80- year-old Manaheel Jabr, flung over a bloodstained walll, grey hair falling around her shrunken black face, a collapsed ceiling pinning her down at the waist..."

"Lara Marlowe writes for the Irish Times, where this piece first appeared. There's nothing to stop US reporters from going to Srifa -- except doctrinal demands."