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Israel’s targeting of civilian infrastructure and air and sea blockade had trapped us. We also found out that Israel had shelled a residential area of Beirut; something Hezbollah had promised would result in its shelling of Haifa...
...distant bombardment that made [our] house shake was the hitting of the Beirut to Damascus highway,” Jurdi wrote. “Israel’s targeting of civilian infrastructure and air and sea blockade had trapped...
...When ambulances and civilian vehicles are unable to transport casualties safely, UNIFIL would normally step in. But on Wednesday, the one planned UNIFIL convoy from Tyre, intended to rotate some observers in a border outpost, was cancelled due to heavy fighting. Israeli troops crossed the border in three places south of Tyre, where they clashed with Hizballah guerrillas...
...earlier, a UNIFIL convoy of armored personnel carriers had inched their way up a heavily cratered coastal road in an attempt to reach Tyre to provide relief supplies to the stranded families of the force's civilian staff. The troops, however, were forced to abandon their APCs halfway into their journey because of Israeli shelling of the road and instead spent the night in bomb shelters...
...into its own hands and has no choice but to fight. In Gaza and now in Lebanon, he has approved harsh responses, like the bombing of a Gaza power plant, despite critics who denounced it as collective punishment. While defending such moves as necessary, Peretz insisted on Sunday, as civilian deaths in Lebanon rose well past 100, that "the moral code of the Israeli nation does not allow us to harm civilians...