Day 6: Getting Worse By The Hour...

Twenty-One Americans Evacuated From Lebanon…Eight Canadians Killed By Israeli Air Strike In Lebanon…G-8 Leaders Condemn Hezbollah, Urge Restraint For Israel…Hezbollah: “We Are In Our Full Strength And Power” And Will Act Without Limits…Lebanese Civilians Killed In Israeli Strikes On Southern City… Hezbollah Rocket Barrage Kills Israelis In Haifa…

Associated Press HAMZA HENDAWI and LEE KEATH July 16, 2006 at 09:24 PM
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Hezbollah and Israel traded rocket and missile barrages without letup for a fifth day Sunday, as the war that has suddenly flared in the Middle East showed no sign of easing. Hezbollah rockets struck deep inside Israel, killing eight people in the northern city of Haifa, and Israel answered with even more lethal blows across Lebanon and into the Bekaa Valley nearSyria.

The toll on both sides rose to at least 178, including three Lebanese soldiers and many civilians, as strikes continued into Monday. In addition to the Israeli victims at a rail repair facility in Haifa, eight Canadians vacationing at their family village in Lebanon died in an Israeli raid, and a sea-launched missile killed at least nine people at a civil defense building in the southern Lebanese port of Tyre.

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