the news of lebanon


In the name of allahßthe most mercfull ,and the most well knowlages Israeli medics said earlier two Israeli soldiers had been wounded in the fighting. The army had no immediate comment. Security sources in Lebanon said the clashes occurred during one of three cross-border incursions by Israeli forces More Hizbollah rockets fell on the Israeli city of Haifa and one hit an empty seafront restaurant. A few people were hurt.

Hizbollah said it had also rocketed an Israeli air force base at Ramat David, about 35 km (22 miles) inside Israel, and the town of Nahariya. The Israeli army said no base was hit.

Despite international diplomatic efforts, there was no sign Israel or its Lebanese Shi"ite foes were ready to heed the Beirut government"s pleas for an immediate halt to a war that has cost at least 285 lives in Lebanon and 25 in Israel- Despite international diplomatic efforts, there was no sign Israel or its Lebanese Shi"ite foes were ready to heed the Beirut government"s pleas for an immediate halt to a war that has cost at least 285 lives in Lebanon and 25 in Israel.- Hizbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, wants to swap two Israeli soldiers it captured on July 12 for Lebanese and Palestinians in Israeli jails. Israel is determined to drive the guerrillas from the south to halt cross-border rocket attacks.- An Israeli helicopter fired four missiles at trucks with drilling gear in a leafy road in Ashrafiya, a Christian district of Beirut, witnesses said. No one was hurt in the strikes.- Acting Interior Minister Ahmed Fatfat said Israel was trying to destroy Lebanon"s infrastructure, not just to defeat Hizbollah. "Are they turning it into a second Iraq?" he asked.

Three Indian workers were killed in an air strike on a glass factory in the eastern Bekaa Valley, medical sources said. France said about 8,000 of its 17,000 citizens resident in Lebanon had asked to be evacuated. A ferry that can carry 1,200 was due to pick up people later in the day after taking 900 foreigners, most of them French, to Cyprus two days earlier-U.N. envoys will suggest deploying Lebanese troops in the south and enlarging an international force there to try to end the fighting, Western diplomats in Jerusalem said.


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