Word: beirutization
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...Friday, at the end of a week of thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing...
...halted, for the most part, the issues remained that could cause fighting again and again until Israel and the Palestinians come to terms. The most alarming aspect of the hostilities was the way the Israelis had plunged ahead with the fighting, heedlessly bombing targets in densely populated areas in Beirut. Throughout the Western world, some of Israel's staunchest friends and supporters -in European governments, in the U.S. Congress, and even within the American Jewish community-criticized Israel's role in the latest round of fighting. The essential questions were posed by Charles Percy, Republican chairman...
...attacks that Begin and the Cabinet authorized were fierce enough. If any one factor turned world opinion against Israel-and thus perhaps hastened the cease-fire-it was the air raid on Beirut. On July 17, aiming at Palestinian guerrilla offices in a crowded neighborhood, Israeli warplanes killed some 300 Lebanese and Palestinians and wounded another 800. Even many of Begin's own countrymen, especially those from the Western-oriented Ashkenazi community, were shocked. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that the Palestinian command posts and offices had been in Beirut for years but that, because of the political...
...counterattack had begun a week earlier when Israeli warplanes staged a strike on Palestinian guerrilla targets near the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon, killing three people and wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur, ten miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between Syrian and Israeli jets...
...Thursday, Israeli planes destroyed six important bridges in southern Lebanon, thereby cutting the main roads south from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope...