Death Toll after 3 Days, 73 in Lebanon & 10 in Israel

[leftchick]

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&id=4365518




A Lebanese civil defense personnel receives medical treatment at a hospital in the southern port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, Friday, July 14, 2006, after his legs were amputated following injuries while he was trying to rescue victims following an Israeli raid in the Zahrani region. Israel tightened its seal on Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world and bringing its offensive to the capital for the first time Friday in order to punish Hezbollah _ and with it, the country _ for the capture of two Israeli soldiers. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)





Smoke rises from a bridge as it is targeted by an Israeli air raid, in the Zahrani region, on the Mediterranean coast, southern Lebanon, Friday, July 14, 2006. Israel tightened its seal on Lebanon, blasting its air and road links to the outside world and bringing its offensive to the capital for the first time Friday in order to punish Hezbollah _ and with it, the country _ for the capture of two Israeli soldiers. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Zaatari)

and tourists are trying desperately to escape....



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Israel tightened its seal on Lebanon Friday, blasting its air and road links to the outside world and bringing its offensive to the capital for the first time Friday to punish Hezbollah, and with it, the country, for the capture of two Israeli soldiers. Warplanes again smashed runways at Beirut's airport with hours of airstrikes, trying to render it unusable, and destroyed mountain bridges on the main highway to Syria. Warships blockaded Lebanon's ports for a second day.

The death toll in three days of fighting rose to 73 killed in Lebanon, almost all civilians, including five who died in strikes Friday, and 10 in Israel. The violence sent shock waves through a region already traumatized by the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas.

Israel also stepped up attacks on roads and bridges, and maintained their blockade of Lebanese ports. But guerrillas in Lebanon continued to fire rockets into several northern Israeli towns, sending many Israelis to bomb shelters. The Israeli government says such attacks are unacceptable.

Ronnie Bar-On Israeli Interior Minister: "We'll have to set up a new cost tag for the behavior of Hezbollah. Nobody, but I said nobody, is going to intimidate once again the citizens of Kiryat Shmona and all the northern border citizens."

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[rfranklin]

1. Setting up war with Iran and Syria for Bush...

It's all part of the master plan.

[cal04]

2. UN relief co-ordinator

Top U.N. relief co-ordinator Jan Egeland said those who had seized Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israel from both Gaza and southern Lebanon bore their share of the blame.

"They don't seem to care the slightest bit that it is the children and the women and the civilians who bear the brunt of all of this," he told a news conference in Geneva.

Egeland called Israeli targeting of civilian infrastructure a violation of international law and of common sense. "You are supposed to do something with the armed troops, you are not supposed to hurt the children and people who had nothing to do with all of this."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060714/wl_nm/mideast_world_dc

:cry:

[leftchick]

5. I can not understand ruining all of Lebanon's infrastructure

unless they just want to destroy Lebanon. It reminds me of shock and awe.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Is the score even yet?

n/t

[Scurrilous]

4. Two people killed in Moshav Meron rocket attack

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"A woman and her 5-year-old grandson were killed, and four others were injured, when a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah slammed into a home in Moshav Meron on Friday evening.

Dozens of people were injured throughout the day Friday, as Katyusha rockets landed in the Galilee.

At least three people were lightly injured when Hezbollah fired a salvo of Katyusha rockets at targets in northern Israel on Friday evening. One person was hurt in Yesod Hama'alah, and others were injured in Kfar Szold and Kibbutz Hulata.

Earlier Friday, two people were moderately hurt and eight sustained light injuries after a Katyusha rocket hit a residential building in Safed on Friday afternoon. The building sustained heavy damage.

Channel 1 TV footage showed heavy damage to the building and its surroundings. Smashed windows and wrecked cars were seen on the street that was strewn with cement fallout."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=738632&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0