A website I've not come across before, Drinking From Home, has these entirely objective words from Radio 4's Hugh Sykes on Monday:

There are already countless children here in Beirut traumatised by repeatedly hearing this…[a recording of an explosion is then played, after which Skyes continues]…rather more violent than a Katyusha.

As the site's author puts it:

Not to the people killed, injured and made homeless by Katyushas. And I believe Israelis have children too.

Sykes then linked to James Reynolds in Israel who reported that the onslaught of Katyushas has not weakened Israeli support for the current military campaign. There was no pause to play sound effects during this segment. Reynolds then handed back to Sykes, who seemed to have taken his colleague's report personally. He’d already made his point comparing Katyushas and Israeli attacks but now felt compelled to repeat it:

Here of course the view is very different from that. People here in Lebanon think the Katyusha rockets have a minor effect compared with the HUGE [his emphasis] devastating Israeli bombardment of the south of Lebanon and of parts of this city very frequently, and they feel that quite often there is an imbalance in the reporting of this conflict and that not enough attention is paid to the fact that approximately ONE THOUSAND [his emphasis] Lebanese lives have been lost compared with a few dozen Israelis.

Note the words Sykes stresses for emotional impact.

Leaving aside the veracity of Lebanese casualty figures, what is really disgraceful is Sykes' dismissal of nearly 100 Israeli deaths as “a few dozen”. Would he belittle a hundred Lebanese deaths in the same casual way? I think not.

"Imbalance in the reporting of this conflict" - oh, the irony.