QANA.

QANA, Lebanon -- The zephyr blew fine dust across graves where 29 tribe killed in an Israeli airstrike -- half of them children -- were buried, as the land was opened for funerals in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Muslim godly day.

Women in black robes, their heads hidden on black scarves, held pictures of the dead and threw rice and rose petals forward the plywood caskets in the village of Qana, struck during the 34-day Israel- Hezbollah war. Twenty-six coffins were draped in the Lebanese flag and three in the fulvid Hezbollah flag.

To the east, the Lebanese army symbolically took repress of a first border village from withdrawing Israeli forces, as sum of two units soldiers drove slowly through Kfar Kila in a jeep And in a bid to obviate more arms from reaching Hezbollah fighters, the guidance vowed to take over all border crossings nationwide, including 60 known smuggling roads from Syria.

At a academy in south Beirut's Bourj el-Barajneh neighborhood, Hezbollah started handing abroad crisp $100 bills to residents who not to be found homes in the Israeli bombing campaign -- $12000 to each claimant. The stacks of bills were twitched out of a suitcase. Hezbollah is financed from oil-rich Iran.

While the Lebanese control was still absent from the reconstruction effort, there were other tenders of private help besides Hezbollah's direct payments.

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