7.17.2006

Israel Hits Lebanon, Hezbollah Attacks Haifa, Israel Answers With Bigger Fire Power

This is soooo not good (there's your understatement of the week, and it's not even 7:30 AM Monday!):

Israel battered targets across Lebanon Sunday and early Monday after a rocket fired by the radical Shiite group Hezbollah struck a railroad yard here and killed eight workers as other rockets rained deep into the Galilee region in northern Israel. The Israeli assault killed at least 28 people in south Lebanon, including seven Lebanese holding Canadian citizenship.

Early Monday, Israeli warplanes struck Beirut again, sparking a large fire at its port, and broadened the assault into northern and eastern Lebanon. Airstrikes killed 17 Lebanese people, including nine soldiers who died in assaults on two Army bases on the northern coast, news services reported. Strikes also damaged homes of Hezbollah officials in the east.
Israeli has a particular talent for killing infrastructure, while most of its enemies just lob at random targets.