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...Thursday morning we awoke to the news that Israeli aircraft had attacked Beirut International Airport at 6 a.m. that morning. My uncle told our entire family we had to get out that day or risk being trapped by an Israeli attack. We were going to my uncle’s newly built house high in the Shouf Mountains...
...What was happening behind that impenetrable cordon of destruction reached Beirut mainly as rumors. Even reaching the area just north of the Litani was fraught with hazard. Leaflets dropped on Beirut by Israeli aircraft on Monday morning warned Lebanese to avoid traveling along the roads north of Sidon, the seaport midway between Beirut and Tyre. That necessitated an arduous and time-consuming detour high up in the cloud-smothered Chouf mountains, complicated Monday by the choking line of northbound vehicles carrying tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence further south...
...back in 1968, in response to a Palestinian terrorist attack on an El Al aircraft at Athens airport, that Israeli commandos blew up 13 planes at Beirut airport belonging to Lebanon's Middle East Airlines...
...price to pay. From the Christian town of Marjayoun just north of the Israeli border, crashing booms of Israeli shellfire exploded in a nearby valley at the foot of Shebaa Farms mountainside, an Israeli- occupied strip of territory that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war. Israeli aircraft also destroyed three key bridges across the Litani River, cutting off much of southeast Lebanon from the capital. One Lebanese soldier and two civilians were killed when Qasimiyeh Bridge, six miles north of Tyre, was blown up. Lebanese troops blocked the roads leading to the destroyed bridges and instructed motorists...
...standoff in Gaza over a captured Israeli soldier on Thursday produced the most intense military clashes of the current round of conflict, as Israeli troops, tanks and aircraft battled Palestinian militants in the northern part of the territory. It also produced the highest casualty toll in an Israeli military operation since 2004. More than 20 Palestinians - some of them reportedly civilians - and one Israeli soldier were killed. Two Israeli soldiers were also wounded, as were around 40 Palestinians...