Hezbollah threatens Haifa, Israel bombs Beirut airport

July 13, 2006 in Global War On Terror, Hamas, Hizbullah, Iran, Israel, Palestinians, Terrorism

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Hezbollah guerillas threatened today to attack the major Israeli port city of Haifa and its surroundings with rockets if Israel strikes the Lebanese capital Beirut and its southern suburbs.

Such a strike would be the deepest ever into Israel by Hezbollah guerillas, who fired volleys of rockets against towns of northern Israel during the past day.

Earlier today, the Israeli army warned Lebanon to evacuate all residents from a southern Beirut neighbourhood where it believes Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah lives, Israeli media reported.

Israel bombs Beirut airport

Israel today bombed Beirut’s international airport and enforced a naval blockade of Lebanon, a day after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight.

Israel’s heaviest air campaign against Lebanon in 24 years smashed the airport’s runways and also targeted Hezbollah television.

The newly refurbished Rafik al-Hariri International Airport is named after the slain former prime minister.

A police officer said there were no casualties when missiles fired from fighter jets hit the runways before dawn, leaving large craters in the tarmac.

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President Bush said Thursday that Israel has the right to defend itself.

STRALSUND, Germany (AP) — President Bush said Thursday that Israel has the right to defend itself, as it launched fresh attacks on Lebanon after the capture of Israeli soldiers.

Bush, visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel en route later in the week to the G-8 summit in Russia, laid the blame for the escalation of violence along the border on Hezbollah, whose guerrillas mounted a cross-border raid earlier in the week and captured the two soldiers. He also said that Syria “needs to be held to account” for supporting and harboring Hezbollah.

“The soldiers need to be returned,” the president said. “It’s really sad where people are willing to take innocent life in order to stop that progress (for peace). As a matter of fact, it’s pathetic.”

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