Fuel storage tanks set on fire after Israeli
warplanes bombed the Lebanese Beirut International Airport in
Beirut's southern suburb after nightfall Thursday, July 13, 2006, Lebanese
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Cross border conflict escalates
20 injured in Hizbollah rocket attacks
on northern Israel
JERUSALEM, July 14 (Xinhua) -- A spokesman
of the Israeli medical service Megen David Adom told Xinhua on Friday that 20
people were wounded during the past half hour by rockets fired by Lebanon's
Hizbollah militia onto northern Israel.
The spokesman said that one of the wounded was in
critical condition, four sustained moderate injuries and others were slightly
wounded. Full story
Beirut airport hit again by Israeli
airstrike
BEIRUT, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Israeli warplanes bombarded the
international airport of Beirut again on Friday, targeting a runway of the
airport.
The airstrike on the airport, the third in the past
24 hours, came at around 11:00 a.m. (0800 GMT), local witnesses said. No
casualty has been reported yet.
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes struck twice the
runway of Beirut airport, forcing closedown of the airport. Full story>>
Israel bombards southern
Beirut
BEIRUT, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Israeli warplanes struck
stronghold of Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah in southern Beirut on
Friday morning, the pan-Arab television channel al-Jazeera reported.
Israeli warplanes fired missiles at targets in southern
Beirut, including a fuel storage tank at a power station, killing four and
wounding 50 others, al-Jazeera said. Full story>>
Israel pounds Beirut's airport again
BEIRUT, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Israeli warplanes bombed
the fuel storage tanks of Lebanese Rafik Hariri International Airport in
Beirut's southern suburb after nightfall Thursday, Lebanese Future TV reported.
One helicopter warplane raked the fuel tanks with
machine gunfire while three others fired air-to-surface missiles, Lebanese
security sources was quoted as saying. Full story>>
The airport fuel storage tanks set on fire after
Israeli warplanes bombed the fuel storage tanks of Lebanese Rafik Hariri
International Airport in Beirut's southern suburb after nightfall
Thursday, July 13, 2006. (Reuters Photo)
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Israel intensifies
attacks in Lebanon
BEIRUT, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Israeli forces
intensified their retaliatory attacks in Lebanon Thursday and brought the death
toll to 55 civilians.
Israeli army is imposing a comprehensive blockade on
Lebanese air, sea and land in a response to Hizbollah's capture of two Israeli
soldiers on Wednesday morning.
A total of 55 Lebanese civilians, including children,
were killed in Israeli raids cross the country on Thursday, Hizbollah's
television channel al-Manar reported. Full story>>
Rockets fired from Lebanon hit Israel's northern city
JERUSALEM, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Two Katyusha rockets
fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa Thursday evening, a
spokeswoman of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told Xinhua.
The rockets fell in Haifa at 8 p.m. (1700 GMT), the
spokeswoman said, adding that there was no report of injury or damage.
Haifa is the third largest city in Israel, 40 km
south to the border in the north. The launch represented the farthest a rocket
reached within Israel.
But Lebanese Hezbollah denied launching rockets at
Israel. Full
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Iran denies Israeli allegation in Hizbollah's transfer of
soldiers
TEHRAN, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry
on Thursday denied the Israeli allegation that Lebanon's Hizbollah attempted to
transfer two Israeli soldiers it took hostage to Iran.
"We strongly deny such reports," Iranian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
"Israel is talking absurdities since it is in
desperation and a crisis it has created," he added.
Earlier, Israel said that there was information that
Hizbollah militants were attempting to transfer the two kidnapped Israeli
soldiers to Iran. Full
story>>
