| Page 3 of 3 < |
Air Attacks Intensify In Lebanon, Israel
A Lebanese fisherman jumps onto a boat following an airstrike that hit the port in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai.
(By Hussein Malla -- Associated Press)
TOOLBOX
   Resize
COMMENT
 Discussion Policy
 CLOSE
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
Who's Blogging  |
Warplanes also blasted Beirut's southern suburbs. The explosions rattled windows in the city center and sent up a column of smoke from the already battered neighborhood, which is inhabited principally by Shiite Muslims and controlled by Hezbollah.
Three Chinese peacekeepers on the border were injured by a Hezbollah rocket, according to the official New China News Agency, citing a Chinese officer. The Chinese foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, had called U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan only a few hours earlier to urge stronger measures to protect U.N. observers. A Chinese military observer was among the four victims of an Israeli missile attack on an observer post last month.
The Israeli air force carried out 170 aerial attacks across Lebanon during a 24-hour period ending Sunday morning -- more than twice the number of the previous day, according to Israeli military officials.
The Israeli military intelligence chief, Amos Yadlin, told the Israeli cabinet that the air force had hit 4,400 targets in Lebanon since the war began, according to the senior government official. He said the air force was having difficulty hitting Hezbollah's smaller rocket launchers, however, because they do not leave a trace that can be detected.
The Israeli military said the rocket attacks Sunday brought to 94 the number of Israelis killed in the war -- 58 soldiers and 36 civilians. According to authorities in Beirut, more than 500 Lebanese civilians have been killed, in addition to about 35 soldiers and an unknown number of Hezbollah fighters.
Yadlin also told the cabinet that Israeli military forces are interrogating a Hezbollah fighter taken prisoner who intelligence officials believe was involved in the capture of two Israeli soldiers during a raid on July 12 that set off the conflict.
Moore reported from Jerusalem. Correspondent Nora Boustany and special correspondents Ian Dietch in Jerusalem and Aliya Ibrahim in Beirut contributed to this report.
