Word: hizballah
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...unexploded 155mm artillery shells rests guiltily on the verge. A series of blast marks - scorched rocks, burnt earth and small holes gouged into the soil - along one stretch of road leading to the Christian village of Dibil suggests either a heavy artillery bombardment, or perhaps signs of Hizballah's roadside bombs, possibly detonated against Israeli tanks...
...sleek lines of the Israeli Merkava tank protrude from behind an olive tree at the end of a track of churned earth, its barrel pointing menacingly at the border road. But this tank is harmless, a burnt-out and abandoned victim of Hizballah's deadly anti-armor missiles. The detritus of a hasty departure lies around the fire blackened tank - a green canvas army sack covered in dried blood, discarded food wrappers with Hebrew inscriptions and several broken stretchers...
...mile further down the potholed and shell-scarred border road is Aitta Shaab, a bastion of Hizballah support, now deserted, which has witnessed some of the fiercest fighting between Israeli forces and Hizballah fighters. It was in the rolling brush-covered terrain south of the village that Hizballah fighters punched through the border fence to snatch two Israeli soldiers nearly a month ago, triggering Israel's onslaught against Lebanon...
...conflict raging in south Lebanon is like no other fought by Israel or Lebanon-based guerrillas. Israel is the most formidable military power in the Middle East and can defeat with ease the conventional armies of its Arab neighbors. Yet Hizballah's lightly armed but devoted, disciplined and combat-experienced guerrilla fighters are a different matter...
...Israelis] are not in a position to say they are in control of the area. They are proceeding very slowly. They are being very cautious and Hizballah is putting up a fight in places of its own choosing," a senior U.N. official in Lebanon says. That much was evident when TIME joined a convoy run by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) - the 2,000-member-strong peacekeeping force that has been in the region since 1978 - carrying humanitarian supplies to some of the beleaguered villages along the border whose remaining residents have either chosen to chance their...