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70 articles tagged "Lebanon War Diary"
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DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel air force has repeatedly struck the station in S. Beirut. Hizballah warned earlier: "In the first attack we deliberately avoided the petrochemical industries of Haifa. If Israeli air raids continue, we won't miss again."
Israeli homeland authorities order nearly one million residents of the city, its environs and northern Israel ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
He predicts fighting will go on for a while and urges sides to focus on narrow targets and avoid harm to civilians. UN and European officials land in Beirut and are due in Jerusalem Monday in efforts to broker a ceasefire.
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
The eight civilians killed in Hizballah rocket attack on Haifa Sunday, July 16:
Shlomi Mansura, 35, from Kiryat Yam, Rafi Hazan, 30, from Haifa, Nissim Elharar, 43, and Rehuven Levi, 48, both from Kiryat Ata, Shmuel Ben-Shimon, 41, from Yokneam Ilit, David Feldman, 28, Asael Damati, 39, and Dennis Lapidus, 24, ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the S. Beirut suburb of Dahya, the Hizballah's command and communications compound was pounded; in the Beqaa Valley, Israeli warplanes raided Hizballah weapons stores, command posts, training camps and logistic centers. A Katyusha launch squad was struck. Also singled out for demolition were Lebanese army radar stations in the ...
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
At a news conference marking 60 hours into the Lebanese crisis, Halutz said: Thus far Hizballah has fired rockets of 30km range, but they have in their arsenal rockets that can strike within a radius of up to 70km and maybe further. The chief of staff did not expect Syria ...
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
He called off the Haifa-for-Beirut ultimatum laid down by his organization Thursday as no longer relevant. "We shall hit Haifa and much beyond," he threatened.He also threatened to set fire to all Israel's missile vessels. As he spoke a missile boat sailing opposite Beirut was struck from the shore. The ...
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Shiite terrorist group also spread false reports of Israeli air strikes on the Syrian side of the Lebanese border. Damascus resisted Hizballah's ruse and firmly denied the report - as did Israel.
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli commanders count a total of 760 fired since Wednesday night, out of an estimated Hizballah arsenal of 13,000 rockets of different types and ranges, which the IDF is seeking out to destroy. The Lebanon campaign may therefore be a long haul, lasting weeks rather than days. (Picture of Tiberias ...
DEBKAfile
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July 16, 2006, 11:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israel navy continues to shell rocket stations on the Lebanese coast. The warships apply new counter-measures against Hizballah missiles.
DEBKAfile
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July 16, 2006, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel warned villagers to evacuate their homes two hours in ahead of the air raids to hit the hideouts of Hizballah's long-range Fajjar missiles capable of striking central Israel which are scattered through villages in the south. Israeli jets also destroyed Hassan Nastrallah's headquarters in south Beirut.
DEBKAfile
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July 16, 2006, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah was on the air again 12 hours after rumors claimed he was injured in the Israeli air bombardment that flattened his 8-storey headquarters compound in Beirut Saturday night, July 15.
As he began speaking, rockets hit the border town of Metula for the first time, followed ...
DEBKAfile
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July 16, 2006, 11:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources doubt whether the Patriots, positioned in an Israeli city for the first time in three years, are much effective against Hizballah rockets.
The last time they were brought out for the US invasion of Iraq, to guard against another missile attack by Saddam Hussein.
DEBKAfile
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July 16, 2006, 11:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
Eight world leaders at a summit in St. Petersburg called Sunday, July 16, for an end to attacks on Israel, followed by the Jewish state pulling its troops out of Gaza and ending military operations in Lebanon. The statement endorsed Israel's right to self-defense and placed primary blame for the ...
DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2006, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The disaster that overtook one of the Israeli Navy's state of the art warships, Ahi-Hanit, was thoroughly planned in advance by an enemy which managed to take Israel's military commanders by surprise. It has shocked Israel's military to a degree comparable to the profound effect on US forces of al ...
DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2006, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
He is First Sgt Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod. The search continues for three missing crewmen, Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitch, 21, from Haifa, Corp. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon Lezion and Master Sgt. Dov Shternschuss, 37, from Carmiel.
The Saar-5 corvette was hit by Hizballah while shelling Beirut airport Friday. The ...
DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2006, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
They had come to the moshav to take refuge from rocket attacks on Nahariya.
Eleven Israeli civilians injured by dozens of Hizballah rockets fired into northern Israel by noon Friday, on the third day of war. Two were seriously hurt in barrage aimed at Safed town and nearby military installations. The ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2006, 11:00 AM (GMT+02:00)
The two soldiers abducted by Hizballah are: Eldad Regev, 26, from Kiryat Motzkin, and Ehud Goldwasser, 31, from Nahariya. The eight soldiers killed in combat with Hizballah: Master Sgt. Eyal Benin, 22, from Beersheba; Master Sgt. Shani Turjeman, 24, from Beit Shean; 1st Sgt. Alexei Kushnirsky, 21, from Nes Ziona; ...
DEBKAfile
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July 15, 2006, 10:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
He was speaking after meeting between US president George W. Bush and his host President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
Friday, Bush said Israel has every right to defend itself but civilian casualties and infrastructure damage must be kept to the minimum.
DEBKAfile
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July 14, 2006, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
This follows Israel's warning to evacuate Beirut's Shiite suburb and strike Hizballah strongholds and its leaders' homes there.
DEBKAfile
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July 14, 2006, 10:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
Power is out in Beirut, streets are deserted and thousands are leaving.
Three Israeli airborne rockets destroyed Hizballah's command and control center and Hassan Nasrallah's residence in the southern suburb of Beirut as well as bridges and Hizballah bases and a second raid on Beirut international airport's runways and fuel tanks. ... |
