Regardless of who they think they're blowing up and assuming that every single shell is going to kill the "bad guys" and not a single innocent civilian, it's just wrong to have kids write messages on artillery shells. Imagine the kinds of messages these children are writning!!!! They can't be writing love and peace messages on these shells, the messages are necessarily those of hate and war. Don't get me wrong I'm not blaming the kids, they're innocent no matter what they do, I'm blaming the adults around them who are exposing them to such hate and savagery at such an early age when they should be doing better things. What would these kids feel if they can see the effects of the shelld they're signing? These are not toys, these are killing instruments. The slide show on the Der Spiegel site is interresting and very realistic, a shrapenel from these shells, with the words of an israeli kid on it, might have killed and injured lebanese kids. This is just barbaric.
I'm taking from personnal experience, you can't imagine the destructive force of these shells, of war in general. I grew up in Lebanon during the civil war, I almost got killed by an artillery shell (I don't know if it was signed though) but I was lucky enough to be in an intellectual and cultural enviroment that shielded me, as much as possible, from the war and exposed me to all kinds of cultural and peaceful influences. This is the only way to brake the vicous cycle of wars and massaccres.
Peace.

Kitty, I know you were not defending it. I was just emphasizing and expanding on my previous comments. I'm just too frustrated and too angry with the continuous madness and the killings and the massacres. The really sad part is that it's one of the most beautiful areas in the world that's being torn to pieces by continuous wars and it's some of the most interresting peoples that have been killing each other for decades and for what? I work in the cancer research field, I make new cancer drugs for both adults and children and I can assure you that we can cure more people much faster from horrible diseases if only a fraction of what's being spent to kill people (not just in this conflict but in several others too, mainly Iraq) is instead put into research and invested into things that can make this world a better place.