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...Israel is also trying to insure it fortifies any potential vulnerable points. The government ordered chemical plants in Haifa to lower their stocks, lest a lucky strike cause damaging fallout. Two Palestinians were arrested this week on suspicions they intended to carry out suicide bombings, and the West Bank city of Nablus has seen fierce clashes between IDF soldiers and militants suspected of planning attacks on Israel. Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered both the West Bank and Gaza - where fighting against Hamas and other militants continues unabated - completely sealed until at least Saturday. Furthermore, Israeli intelligence is concerned Hizballah might...
...Fifteen Israelis have been killed by Hizballah rockets in the past week. The coastal city of Haifa has been hit repeatedly, including a strike last Sunday that killed eight people. Tiberias and the Jezareel Valley have also been hit, as was Nazareth on Wednesday, killing two Arab-Israeli children. The weapons are not particularly accurate, but they are obviously terrifying - and potentially fatal. If nothing else, they serve Hizballah's goal of dragging the conflict out as long as possible...
...Sunday the war came to Tyre; most of the city's population, upon hearing the news that Hizballah rockets had struck the Israeli port city of Haifa, 18 miles south of the border, sought refuge in the basements of apartment blocks. "It was terrifying," says Mohammed Awayni, 23. "We spent all day in the basement. We could hear the explosions shaking the buildings...
...Alaa Mahmoud, 42, is Iraqi, from the notorious Haifa Street in Baghdad; he's one of about 20,000 Iraqis in Lebanon. He fled the nascent civil war in Baghdad in 2004, and now he is sick, he says, with an infection of his hip. He has no medicine and can't work at his job as a janitor anymore. As his eyes tear up, he pleads with me to call his sister in Baghdad to tell her he is alive. At this point, he breaks down and cries...
...Israeli soldiers captive twice in a three-week span - and the military operation has not gone entirely smoothly. The IDF has been surprised by the potency of some of Hizballah's weapons, including a sophisticated missile that hit a navy ship on Saturday. More rockets killed eight people in Haifa on Sunday, and Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah has promised more "surprises...