......The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut...

......The Melbourne man who smuggled the shots out of Beirut told yesterday how he was less than 400m from the block when it was obliterated.

"Hezbollah came in to launch their rockets, then within minutes the area was blasted by Israeli jets,'' he said.

"Until the Hezbollah fighters arrived, it had not been touched by the Israelis. Then it was totally devastated.

"After the attacks they didn't even allow the ambulances or the Lebanese Army to come in until they had cleaned the area, removing their rockets and hiding other evidence.

"Two innocent people died in that incident but it was so lucky it was not more.

"The people there were horrified and disgusted at what Hezbollah were doing.''

The fighters used trucks, driven into residential areas, as launch pads for the rockets, he said.

Another image shows a line of decimated trucks sitting behind a 5m wide crater.

The release of the images comes as Hezbollah fighters face increasing censure for using innocent civilians as “human shields”.

A United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland blasted Hezbollah as ``cowards'' for operating among Lebanese civilians.....

.......Mr Egeland said when he was in Lebanon in the Hezbollah heartland he had said: “Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children'

"I heard they were making statements that they were proud of losing fewer armed men than civilians.

“It's hard to see how they could be proud of such a situation.''