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Remains of three missing Israeli seamen found onboard Israeli warship Ahi-Hanit

July 18, 2006, 12:02 PM (GMT+02:00)

The Saar-5 class corvette was damaged by a Hizballah missile on Saturday, 16 km. from the Beirut coast. The body of First Sgt Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod, was found onboard Saturday.

The bodies of missing crewmen Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitch, 21, from Haifa, Corp. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon Lezion and Master Sgt. Dov Shternschuss, 37, from Carmiel were found Sunday.

DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal: The Israeli Saar-5 corvette Ahi-Hanita was struck by a made-in-Iran shore-to-sea radar-guided C-802 Silkworm missile.

Read about this dangerous new development in DEBKAfile’s Exclusive Military Analysis below.
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Massive Hizballah barrage of dozens of rockets against Safed hospital and Haifa, Carmiel, Kiryat Metula, Rosh Pina, Tivon, Kiryat Shemona Monday night

July 18, 2006, 12:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

First report of four people injured in Safed, one seriously. Israel steps up artillery pressure on S. Lebanon.

Israel`s Dep. Chief of Staff Moshe Kaplinsky says Lebanon operation could last several weeks

July 18, 2006, 11:59 AM (GMT+02:00)

Lebanon reports up to 10 soldiers killed in another Israeli air attack over Hizballah strongholds in and around Beirut. There were more air strikes Monday overnight on Nabatiya in the south and Baalbek in the east. The forward Hizballah post in the Lebanese half of Ghajar village was destroyed.

Military sources say one-third of Hizballah’s long-range missiles have been degraded in six days of Israeli operations in Lebanon.
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Eleven civilians injured in 4 floor-residential building in Haifa that took a direct rocket hit in second Hizballah barrage in 24 hours

July 18, 2006, 11:42 AM (GMT+02:00)

Some of the wounded are in serious condition. As rescue teams search pulled survivors out of the ruined building in Bat Galim another rocket volley hit the city. Sunday, the first rocket attack from Lebanon killed 8 Israeli civilians at a railway depot Sunday.
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Rice: We should have a ceasefire when conditions are conducive. Egyptian FM Ahmed Abul Gheit: We need a ceasefire at once

July 18, 2006, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)

The two officials were speaking about the Lebanese crisis in Washington Tuesday, July 18, at the outset of a strategic dialogue they agreed to hold. Answering a question about how much time the Bush administration would give the Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert, the US secretary of state said: We need a sustainable solution. The Middle East has seen too many spasms of violence. Amid reports that she will travel to the Middle East Friday, Rice said she will go when it is appropriate.

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Israeli Army in Race against a UN Ceasefire in Lebanon

August 12, 2006, 3:52 PM (GMT+02:00)

Israeli forces are pressing forward with the wide-scale operation against Hizballah which DEBKAfile reports was launched four days ago on Wednesday, Aug. 8. The campaign will continue until the ceasefire called for in Security Resolution 1701 approved Friday, Aug. 11, is enforced on the ground – if and when that happens. It is carried forward by four expanded divisions of 11 brigades, about 12,000 fighting men. Head of the Ground Forces Branch Maj.-Gen Benny Gantz is leading the IDF’s South Lebanon command. The first stage of the new operation has succeeded in its objective of encircling Hizballah’s 1,500-strong force in a large swathe stretching from the Litani River in the north, to Tyre in the southwest.
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UN Resolution’s Time Sequence Could Leave Dangerous Vacuum in S. Lebanon

August 12, 2006, 1:47 PM (GMT+02:00)

“That’s the best we can do for you,” US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice told Ehud Olmert Friday, Aug. 11, after 15 UN Security Council members unanimously endorsed the revised US-French resolution calling for a cessation of hostilities in Lebanon. One of the resolution's demands is for the withdrawal of Israeli troops “in parallel” with the deployment of Lebanese forces for taking control of the south. Israeli soldiers are thus required to pull out before the arrival of the beefed up UN force. The call for an “unconditional release” of the two Israeli soldiers, whose July 12 abduction sparked the conflict, is not accompanied by any tangible steps for its implementation. There will be an uncertain interim period as Israeli forces stay in place to make sure no vacuum is formed for Hizballah to recover its positions before the ceasefire is enforced on the ground – as and when this happens. However, the UN secretary is required to report back to the Security Council within a week on how well its resolution has been implemented.
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A High-Stakes Gamble or a Turning Point in the Lebanon War

August 10, 2006, 2:09 AM (GMT+02:00)

Hassan Nasrallah’s recorded statement over Hizballah’s Al Manar television Wednesday night, August 9, at 20:15 local time, had a nail-biting audience: US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in Washington, French president Jacques Chirac at the Elysee in Paris, prime minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem and his Lebanese counterpart Fouad Siniora in Beirut. DEBKAfile’s military sources note that Nasrallah in throwing down the gauntlet is undertaking the biggest gamble of his life. A defeat at Israeli hands would finish him and his militia off for the foreseeable future. At the same time, he does not have to beat Israel to claim victory; it is enough for him to hold on for another month and keep up his rocket offensive against northern Israel to come out on top. Nasrallah is not the only side throwing all his chips on the table; so too is Ehud Olmert. The Israeli army has had a bad month, culminating Wednesday in the highest death toll on the battlefield in 30 days – 15 dead and 34 injured - 7 seriously. Nine belonged to special operations units. Olmert will be gambling on the IDF’s ability to wrench the wheel round and start winning. But if Hizballah forces in the south are not subdued and the rocket blitz continues, the war will intensify and Israeli forces will be in trouble. So too will Olmert.
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Lebanon Hostilities Are Nowhere Near a UN-initiated Cessation

August 8, 2006, 11:37 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tuesday night, Aug. 8, the UN Security Council was to begin discussing a resolution drafted by the US and France calling for a full cessation of hostilities based on the immediate halt of all Hizballah’s attacks and immediate end of all Israeli offensive military operations. An Arab League delegation arrived at the UN in time to overshadow the deliberations with a strong representation of the Lebanese position, which insists on an Israel’s withdrawal after a ceasefire starts. France pushed for two changes in the original text to address the Arab-Lebanese demands: one, calling for the Israeli pullout before an international force is in place, the other, the handover of the tiny disputed Shebaa Farms enclave to UN. And France, as the Bush administration’s conduit to Hizballah and Tehran, may be heeded. Of course, Israel is still free to accept or reject these terms. Until it is decided which way diplomacy is going, both Hizballah and Israel will intensify their effort to gain the upper hand on the battlefield.
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Tehran Sends Archterrorist Mughniyeh to Rescue Hizballah

August 5, 2006, 4:57 PM (GMT+02:00)

In the middle of the fourth week of the Lebanon War, the tide began to turn in Israel’s favor. DEBKAfile’s military sources report the battlefield finally responded to the effect of Israel’s air might, its tank columns, the pounding by mobile artillery and naval craft and its repeated armored infantry assaults. But as soon as Israeli ground forces shifted to the massive, long-distance firing mode which they knows best, the impact on the warfront was immediate. The battle went their way with a minimum of casualties. In places where Israeli troops adhered to the close combat tactics practiced in the first three weeks, they continued to suffer high casualties. Hizballah soon showed signs of distress. Lacking the weapons and resources to stand up to IDF’s precise-shooting juggernaut, their commanders quickly pulled their men out most combat sectors of South Lebanon and ordered them to regroup in five places. Hizballah’s shadowy leader, the long-wanted Imad Mughniyeh, was hurriedly appointed commander of the southern front as a last resort to save South Lebanon from falling to Israel. As to the rocket barrage, as long as Iran's airlift is not severed by bombing the Syrian stopover air facilities, Iran will continue to top up Hizballah’s stockpile.
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