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Beirut, Aug 4, 2006 Three civilians were killed early Friday when Israeli warplanes hit several regions of Lebanon including southern Beirut, stronghold of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement, targeted for the second consecutive night, police said. The aircraft stepped up their action against the suburbs of the capital, with 12 raids on the southern Uzai district in less than half an hour. Fires could be seen in the area close to Beirut airport, which is crossed by a highway leading to the south of Lebanon. The sound of fighter-bombers screeching across the capital was interspersed by the impacts of exploding bombs. Two civilians were killed near Jwaya in the southern Tyre region when an Israeli fighter-bomber fired a missile at their car. Six civilians had been wounded on Thursday in earlier air raids, police said. A girl was killed and three other civilians were wounded in a raid on Budai, a village 20 kilometres (13 miles) west of Baalbek in the east of Lebanon, where two houses were badly damaged, the police said. Warplanes had earlier struck a house in the eastern suburbs of Baalbek, the police added, without saying whether there had been victims. For the second time since the start of the Israeli offensive launched against Lebanon on July 12 the road from Ouyoun as-Simane to Afqa northeast of Baalbek was bombed, the police said. The highway links the region to the Christian Kesrwan mountain north of Beirut. Dozens of raids overnight Thursday to Friday shook several villages in the southern regions of Tyre and Nabatiyeh, relatively far from the border where there were violent clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters, the police said. Two missiles were fired at the Rweiss and Haret-Hreik districts in south Beirut, they said. Rweiss, which had initially been spared, was first targeted the previous night after a week's respite in strikes on the capital's suburbs. Haret-Hreik and Bir al-Abed, where Hezbollah's headquarters is located, were pounded for two weeks and are in ruins. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Nuclear Space Technology at Space-Travel.com
![]() ![]() Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday vowed that his guerrillas would strike at Israel's commercial capital of Tel Aviv if Beirut was hit by air strikes, drawing Israeli threats to destroy all Lebanese infrastructure. |
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