07-13-2006, 07:46 PM
Impotent Buffons of India want to make Israel an impotent society.
Well done Isreal, good going.
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Nadim Ladki/ Reuters | Beirut
Attacks Lebanon in hot pursuit of cross-border terrorists ---- Israel struck Beirut airport and blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, expanding reprisals that killed 52 civilians in Lebanon since Hizbullah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier. The Lebanese Shia Muslim group retaliated by raining rockets onto towns in northern Israel. Â
Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that it had information that Lebanese guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers were trying to transfer them to Iran.
A woman was killed and 29 people were wounded, including children, in Nahariya, Israeli medics said. Eleven people were wounded in the northern town of Safed.
The violence was the fiercest since 1996 when Israeli troops still occupied part of south Lebanon. It coincided with a major Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip to retrieve a captured soldier and halt Palestinian rocket fire.
US President Bush voiced concern about the fate of Lebanon's anti-Syrian Government, but offered no direct criticism of the punishment Israel is meting out.
<b>"Israel has the right to defend herself," he said in Germany. "Secondly, whatever Israel does should not weaken the Government in Lebanon." </b>
Despite the flare-up in Lebanon, Israel signaled no let-up in its Gaza assault, mounting an air strike that destroyed the office of Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar. At least 24 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Wednesday.
Israeli aircraft bombed runways at Beirut's international airport, forcing flights to divert to Cyprus.
An Israeli military spokesman announced a naval blockade of Lebanese ports. Israeli vessels were visible from the shore.
A Beirut port official said ships had docked early in the day, but that the Israelis had prevented some from leaving.
A senior Israeli officer told Reuters the air and sea blockade would be maintained throughout what he said would be a prolonged offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
"We should not consider this a matter of days," said Brigadier-General Amir Eshel, deputy chief of air force staff. "This blockade will last as long as the conflict goes on."
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Well done Isreal, good going.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Israel shows the way </b>
Nadim Ladki/ Reuters | Beirut
Attacks Lebanon in hot pursuit of cross-border terrorists ---- Israel struck Beirut airport and blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, expanding reprisals that killed 52 civilians in Lebanon since Hizbullah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier. The Lebanese Shia Muslim group retaliated by raining rockets onto towns in northern Israel. Â
Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that it had information that Lebanese guerrillas who captured two Israeli soldiers were trying to transfer them to Iran.
A woman was killed and 29 people were wounded, including children, in Nahariya, Israeli medics said. Eleven people were wounded in the northern town of Safed.
The violence was the fiercest since 1996 when Israeli troops still occupied part of south Lebanon. It coincided with a major Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip to retrieve a captured soldier and halt Palestinian rocket fire.
US President Bush voiced concern about the fate of Lebanon's anti-Syrian Government, but offered no direct criticism of the punishment Israel is meting out.
<b>"Israel has the right to defend herself," he said in Germany. "Secondly, whatever Israel does should not weaken the Government in Lebanon." </b>
Despite the flare-up in Lebanon, Israel signaled no let-up in its Gaza assault, mounting an air strike that destroyed the office of Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar. At least 24 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Wednesday.
Israeli aircraft bombed runways at Beirut's international airport, forcing flights to divert to Cyprus.
An Israeli military spokesman announced a naval blockade of Lebanese ports. Israeli vessels were visible from the shore.
A Beirut port official said ships had docked early in the day, but that the Israelis had prevented some from leaving.
A senior Israeli officer told Reuters the air and sea blockade would be maintained throughout what he said would be a prolonged offensive against Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
"We should not consider this a matter of days," said Brigadier-General Amir Eshel, deputy chief of air force staff. "This blockade will last as long as the conflict goes on."
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