He looked at us, distraught.

I always watch him with amazement.

This isn't Lebanon, where the civilians in the southern villages targeted by the Israeli bombs... ...could flee to the north, or to Syria or Jordan.

In the small hours of the night... when every sound is seized upon by the distraught imagination... remorse and terror laid hold of him.

And when I asked one of the women about the shock and awe response, she said, Don't worry, same thing back home.

Netizens watched with disbelief as the courageous crowds' chants got louder, drowning the deafening noise of jets, while keeping a close eye on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's TV interviews. Here's the snapshot from Twitter in the last few minutes