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...Sunni village of Jibbayn, panic-stricken residents beg the UNIFIL convoy for lifts to the comparative safety of Tyre, a coastal town that so far has remained relatively immune to the Israeli assault. But the UNIFIL peacekeepers are under orders not to transport civilians from the area, so the disappointed villagers, a few aged men and women, shoulder the brown cardboard boxes of food and stalk resignedly back to their homes. Israeli troops have deployed at the northern end of Jibbayn, cutting the road to Teir Harfa village to which the UNIFIL convoy was hoping to proceed. "The Israelis have...
...frustrating experience for the UNIFIL officer, but the Israeli forces are in Jibbayn with good reason. A day later, Israeli commandos advance from Jibbayn to the cliff top village of Biyada, a strategic location overlooking the Mediterranean and a huge tract of territory stretching north up the coastline to Tyre and beyond. The move effectively cuts off the Hizballah fighters dug into the hillside around Naqoura two miles to the south. The Hizballah men are now surrounded and unless they can evade the enclosing Israeli troops and escape to the north, they face a grim but certain fate. But hours...
...bunkers. They patrol the neighborhood on scooters like a mini-motocross militia, separating the would-be looters from families who have returned to inspect the damage. Suddenly, the battered blocks echo with celebratory gunfire as the rumor spreads that a Hizballah missile has hit an Israeli warship in Tyre. Fearing a retaliatory strike, the families leave...
...Monday evening Hizballah announces it has struck a second Israeli navy ship with a missile since the war began, this one off the coast of Tyre in south Lebanon. Curious residents gaze out into the Mediterranean as the sun sinks below the horizon to the west, trying, unsuccessfully, to catch a glimpse of smoke or fire. Still, the lull has encouraged a few optimists in Tyre to hope it might turn into a cease-fire. But realists listen to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's speech, in which he rejects a cease-fire, and know from bitter experience that...
...hospital in Tyre, Mohammed Shalhoub breaks down in tears as he answers a flurry of phone calls from friends and relatives. His six-year-old daughter, Zeinab, his brother, Tayseer, and his sister, Fatmeh, were killed. His wife, Rabab, and four-year-old son, Hassan, survived and were being treated in another hospital. A former student of Islam, Mohammed says that his faith will sustain him. "We believe in God. We have a history of sacrifice and martyrdom," he says. In 1996, the massacre at the UN base in Qana galvanized the West to arrange a ceasefire. But few residents...