the headline reads:

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Wave of Rocket Attacks Kill 8 in Israel
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Aug 4, 12:36 AM (ET)

By RAVI NESSMAN

(AP) Israeli soldiers stand on top of an armored vehicle before entering Lebanon from northern Israel...
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JERUSALEM (AP) - A massive wave of guerrilla rockets pounded northern Israel in a matter of minutes Thursday, killing eight people hours before Hezbollah's leader offered to stop the attacks if Israel ends its airstrikes. Israel hit back early Friday with airstrikes in southern Beirut.

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So tell me, why do these 8 people in Israel make the headline while the scores killed in lebanon the same day go un-counted.

Further down the same article we find this...

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Since the fighting started, 68 Israelis have been killed, 41 soldiers and 27 civilians. More than 300,000 Israelis have fled their homes in the north, Israeli officials said.

An Associated Press count shows at least 525 Lebanese have been killed, including 450 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry, 25 Lebanese soldiers and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas. Five of the civilians were reported dead Thursday in airstrikes. Hezbollah also reported four deaths but did not say when the fighters were killed.

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Note a couple of things... Israeli deaths are being reported first giving them greater importance. and yet they equal at most 13% of the number of Lebanese deaths. the percentage of Israeli deaths that are civilians is about 40% while the percent of Lebanese civilian deaths is more than double, at 85%. the number of Lebanese civilian casualties is nearly 17 times that of Israeli deaths... is it me or is this news article missing the story somehow? it seems the Lebanese casualties are listed almost as an obligatory afterthought rather than as a significant part of this story.

WHY?