[LCM Articles] In self-defense...

Loai Naamani loai at MIT.EDU
Sat Jul 15 16:00:30 EDT 2006 

Israel kills 34 civilians in strikes 
 
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Israel killed at least 34 civilians on Saturday, including 15 children, in
air strikes meant to punish Lebanon for letting Hizbollah guerrillas menace
the Jewish state's northern border.
Israel's bombing of Lebanese roads, bridges, ports and airports, as well as
Hizbollah targets, is its most destructive onslaught since a 1982 invasion
to expel Palestinian forces.
For the first time, ports in Christian areas were bombarded and a helicopter
missile hit a lighthouse on Beirut's seafront.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora demanded an immediate U.N.-backed
ceasefire, denouncing Israel for turning his country into a "disaster zone."
He appealed for foreign aid.
An Israeli missile incinerated a van in southern Lebanon, killing 20 people,
among them 15 children, in the deadliest single attack of the campaign
launched by Israel after Hizbollah captured two of its soldiers and killed
eight on Wednesday.
Police said the van was carrying two families fleeing the village of
Marwaheen after Israeli loudspeaker warnings to leave their homes. Many of
the bodies were charred and broken.
Other raids on north, east and south Lebanon killed 14 people and wounded
37, security sources said.
At least 103 people, all but four of them civilians, have been killed in
Israel's four-day-old assault, which has choked Lebanon's economy and
prompted tourists and foreigners to flee.
Hizbollah rockets struck deeper into Israel than ever, wounding eight people
in the Sea of Galilee town of Tiberias.
Altogether 10 Israelis were wounded as about 80 rockets rained down from
Lebanon. Israel has deployed Patriot missile batteries in the northern city
of Haifa to intercept rockets.
Four Israeli civilians, including a child, have been killed by Hizbollah
bombardment this week.
President Bush, who has declined to urge Israel to curb its military
operations, said Syria should tell Hizbollah, also backed by Iran, to stop
cross-border attacks.
PORTS UNDER FIRE
Lebanon's main commercial ports of Beirut and Tripoli came under fire, as
well as ports in the Christian towns of Jounieh and Amsheet, security
sources and witnesses said.
One Lebanese soldier was killed and several wounded when an army radar
station was hit in Batroun north of Beirut.
In Beirut, Israeli warplanes flattened Hizbollah's nine-storey headquarters
and destroyed the office of a Hamas leader, Mohammed Nazzal. Hamas said
Nazzal had survived.
Israeli warplanes also bombed offices and houses of Hizbollah officials in
Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, security sources said. Witnesses said there were
casualties but had no details because Hizbollah sealed off the area.
Israeli planes fired rockets near a Lebanese-Syrian border crossing,
heightening fears it could extend its campaign to Syria, which along with
Iran is Hizbollah's main ally. 
Israel said it had attacked targets only in Lebanon. A Syrian official also
said Israel had not struck Syria. 
Italy began evacuating its nationals from Lebanon on Saturday. Other Western
and Arab countries made plans to ferry their citizens from Lebanon to Syria
or Cyprus. 
Israel aims not just to force Hizbollah to free the soldiers, whom the
Shi'ite group wants to trade for prisoners in Israel, but to destroy its
ability to fire rockets into Israel. 
"The best way to stop the violence is for Hizbollah to lay down its arms and
to stop attacking. And therefore I call upon Syria to exert influence over
Hizbollah," Bush told a joint news conference with President Vladimir Putin
at a summit in Russia. 
The European Union, in a statement at the G8 summit, said Israel's assault
on Lebanon was disproportionate. 
Israeli army chief Dan Halutz said on Friday more targets would be bombed to
try to drive Hizbollah from the border and replace it with a force answering
to the Lebanese government. 
The Beirut government, led by an anti-Syrian coalition, lacks the unity and
firepower to disarm Hizbollah, the only Lebanese faction to keep its guns
after the 1975-90 civil war. 
After Israel quit Lebanon in 2000, Hizbollah confined its attacks mainly to
a disputed border area, but Wednesday's bold raid shattered tacit rules that
had limited frontier violence. 
Israel's campaign in Lebanon coincided with an offensive it launched in the
Gaza Strip on June 28 to try to retrieve another captured soldier and halt
Palestinian rocket fire. 
Israeli aircraft attacked the Palestinian Economy Ministry in Gaza and a
house where a Hamas militant was killed and eight people were wounded.
Israel has killed about 85 Palestinians, around half of them militants since
the offensive was launched. 
(Additional reporting by Nadim Ladki, Alaa Shahine, Lin Noueihed; Khaled
Yaacoub Oweis in Damascus; Jerusalem bureau) 
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