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...buzz above Lebanon all hours of the day and night, trying to destroy as many rockets and launchers as possible, or at the very least keep launch teams far from the border. Roads, bridges, and gas stations have been bombed to limit mobility. Southern towns such as Tyre and Sidon are being pounded, their populations forced to either flee or risk death. Suspect vehicles, particularly trucks, are being attacked. On Monday, the IAF destroyed two trailers full of missiles coming from Syria. Israel essentially wants to make it impossible for Hizballah to launch anything from points south of Beirut...
...span over a dry creek. But when the Israelis took it out two days ago, they also cut a water main that fed some 45 villages in the Kharrob district. "They have no way of getting water, from here all the way to the eastern part of Sidon," said Ghaleb Abu Howdan, 34, a food supply salesman, who lives in the house next to the now mangled bridge...
...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...
Despite the turmoil in Lebanon, El-Zaatari said that he has "chosen to stay with my family"—he returned to his hometown of Sidon, from Beirut earlier this week. Since he is "far from any zones where major bombing has been taking place" and travel on major roads has been dangerous for the last few days, he said, staying put "is the safest option...
...news from elsewhere in Lebanon last week was equally discouraging. A standoff continued between President Amin Gemayel and Christian militiamen who oppose many of his policies. In the port city of Sidon, the arrival of Lebanese army forces did not halt two weeks of fighting between Christian and Muslim gunmen in which more than 90 people have been killed. In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces continued their painful withdrawal, which they hope to complete by the end of May. Behind them, as part of the upheaval produced by the 1982 invasion, they are leaving a Shi'ite guerrilla movement of undetermined...