Thursday, August 03, 2006
Lebanon crisis: Both sides count the cost
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(Andrew Marshall - Mail & Guardian).
Hezbollah guerrillas killed eight people in Israel in a rocket barrage on Thursday despite an intensive Israeli ground and air campaign to wipe them out, as world powers struggled to end the 23-day-old war.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the war had killed 900 people in Lebanon and wounded 3 000, with a third of the casualties children under 12. He said a million Lebanese, a quarter of the population, had been displaced and infrastructure devastated. The Reuters tally of Lebanon deaths is at least 683.
More than 100 rockets struck Israel in the late afternoon, killing eight people and wounding dozens, police said. It was the highest number of Israeli dead in a rocket attack since eight people were killed in the port city of Haifa on July 16.
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(Andrew Marshall - Mail & Guardian).
Hezbollah guerrillas killed eight people in Israel in a rocket barrage on Thursday despite an intensive Israeli ground and air campaign to wipe them out, as world powers struggled to end the 23-day-old war.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the war had killed 900 people in Lebanon and wounded 3 000, with a third of the casualties children under 12. He said a million Lebanese, a quarter of the population, had been displaced and infrastructure devastated. The Reuters tally of Lebanon deaths is at least 683.
More than 100 rockets struck Israel in the late afternoon, killing eight people and wounding dozens, police said. It was the highest number of Israeli dead in a rocket attack since eight people were killed in the port city of Haifa on July 16.
