Mideast Crisis in Pictures

Started by Sportsdude, Jul 17 06 02:38

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BBC is at it again with pictures.

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 [DIV class=bodytxt]Israeli aircraft have kept up their strikes on targets across Lebanon. Overnight this storage depot in south Beirut was reduced to rubble.

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]Scores of Lebanese civilians have been killed and injured in the attacks.

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]Here, a firefighter hoses down the corpses of two Lebanese civilians, killed and set alight by an Israeli strike on Beirut's port early on Monday.

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]Israel says it has been forced to strike back at Hezbollah fighters, who have launched hundreds of rockets into Israel. Two dozen Israelis have died in the fighting, half of them civilians.

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]Nine people died in a rocket strike on a railway depot in the Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday, which Israelis blamed on Hezbollah. Now many Haifa residents are confined to public shelters.

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]There are signs of the destructive power of Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets in Nahariya, an Israeli town near the Lebanon border.

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 [DIV class=bodytxt]Rockets continue to rain over the border, and Hezbollah has promised more "surprises" for Israel.[/DIV][/TD] [TD bgColor=#ffffff rowSpan=2][img height=1 hspace=2 src="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif" width=1 border=0][/TD][/TR][/TBODY][/TABLE]

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]Foreign nationals are being evacuated from Beirut, and many tourists have escaped by road to Syria.

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 [DIV class=bodytxt]Thousands of Lebanese from villages near the Israeli border have also fled as Israel stepped up its assault. Here, a doctor examines refugees at a school in Sidon.

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[DIV class=bodytxt] [DIV class=bodytxt]And more homes are reduced to ruins, such as this one in Baalbek, Lebanon, as the Israeli pursuit of Hezbollah goes on.

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