Slipping Into All-Out War...

Israeli PM Orders More Strikes On Lebanon… Hezbollah Fires Rockets Into Israel… Iran Threatens “Fierce Response” If Israel Attacks Syria… Israeli Army Chief: “Nothing Is Safe” In Lebanon… Israel Bombs Beirut Airport And Lebanese Army Bases, Imposes Naval Blockade… Russia, France, Britain, Italy Criticize Israel's “Disproportionate Use Of Force”...

AP SAM F. GHATTAS July 13, 2006 at 05:38 PM
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Israel unleashed a furious military campaign on Lebanon's main airport, highways, military bases and other targets Thursday, retaliating for scores of Hezbollah guerrilla rockets that rained down on Israel and reached as far as Haifa, its third-largest city, for the first time.

The death toll in two days of fighting rose to 57 people with the sudden burst of violence sending shock waves through a region already traumatized by Iraq and the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. It shattered the relative calm in Lebanon that followed Israel's pullout from its occupied zone in south Lebanon in 2000 and the withdrawal of Syrian forces last year.
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