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Israeli military and air force flatly deny any Israeli warplane shot down over E. Beirut as claimed by Lebanese TV Monday

July 17, 2006, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)

Hizballah TV al Manar crashes Sunday shortly after latest warning to Israel, returns with poor quality broadcast

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 to stay under shelter and off the streets. Eight people were killed in Haifa, more than 20 injured, in heavy rocket barrage from Lebanon Sunday morning.

Kofi Annan considers adding UN dependants to foreign exodus from Lebanon

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.

The eight civilians killed in Hizballah rocket attack on Haifa Sunday, July 16:

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, all three from Kiryat Yam.

Thirty-five people were injured, six of them seriously.

DEBKAfile: Hadera’s town leaders hold emergency meeting after one of the rockets fired at Haifa to the north Sunday exploded in the dunes of Caesarea

July 17, 2006, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)

The rocket threat is inching closer to Tel Aviv.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the rocket was not a stray but a range-finder. Similarly, the rocket that exploded near Kibbutz Maoz Haim south of Tiberias Saturday, July 15, preceded the attack on the town itself.
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Israel’s Surprise Raid of Baalbek Is No Panacea for Tactical Ills

August 2, 2006, 3:08 PM (GMT+02:00)

To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click HERE . Israel’s audacious commando raid of a Hizballah stronghold near Baalbek more than 100 km north of the border recalled the old panache associated with Israeli military feats in the past. However the 22 days of the Lebanon war have shown an army hampered and slowed down by tactical and intelligence deficiencies which showed up in the costly Maroun er-Ras and Bin Jubeil operations in South Lebanon – and again this week in the Ayta a-Chaab battle. The officers direct most of their criticism at the Northern Command’s handling of the war, arguing that the IDF should have kicked off the entire campaign with a series of audacious assaults like Tuesday’s Baalbek operation so as to catch Hizballah off-balance. On July 28, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 263 cited its military analysts on the IDF’s six principal failings in the Lebanon war.
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The Push beyond the Litani River

August 1, 2006, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)

When on Monday, July 31, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the city leaders of the rocket-blitzed north: “The war goes on. There will be no ceasefire in the coming days!” the script was ready for the next stage of the Israeli offensive to its push Hizballah back behind the Litani River. It was approved by the inner cabinet unopposed that night with no time scale. DEBKAfile’s military analysts say it would be wrong to assume that that the Israeli advance to the Litani comes in the form of troops fanned out the full width of the southern Lebanese front. This is not so. The ground forces are in fact quite far from the river. They are driving forward in three spearheads in the western, central and eastern sectors, battling heavy Hizballah resistance in their path. The IDF aim to carve out and control three enclaves along the Lebanese-Israel border in an area not yet cleansed of Hizballah fighters in nearly three weeks of combat. The operation to push Hizballah out of the south past the Litani River is proceeding very slowly and is still in its early stages. are still very much up in the air. Until then, even after Israeli forces reach the Litani, they face more combat to defend the pockets they have occupied.
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The Qana Trap

July 30, 2006, 2:24 PM (GMT+02:00)

The unfortunate South Lebanese village of Qana has been rigged time and again as a trap to snatch Israel and its international reputation in its jaws. In 1996, a stray Israel shell aimed at Hizballah inadvertently killed 100 civilians, bringing a former Israeli counter-terror operation “The Grapes of Wrath” to a dismal, foreshortened end. When, Sunday morning, July 30, Olmert told the cabinet: “We are not in a hurry to reach a ceasefire before our goals are achieved,” he did not know about the Israeli chopper which two hours earlier had sent ordnance flying over a three-story building in Qana village, which housed civilians as well as a Hizballah site for shooting rockets against the Israeli towns of Haifa and Nahariya. The death toll was appalling – 51 civilians including more than 20 children, some of them disabled. By failing to understand the tempo of war, he was overtaken by the Qana disaster.
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Syrian Downing of Israeli drone Raises Specter of Syrian Scuds

July 29, 2006, 2:57 PM (GMT+02:00)

The Lebanon war raging between Israel and HIzballah took an alarming detour Friday, July 28, when, according to DEBKAfile’s military sources, Syrian air defense batteries ambushed and shot down an Israeli spy drone flying on the Lebanese side of the border with Syria. These drones have been used to “paint” the weapons convoys heading in from Syria, for the Israeli air force to hit them before they can reach their destinations and replenish Hizballah stockpiles. This time, the Syrians knocked the drone out of the sky to allow a large consignment of rocket launchers and truckloads of rockets to cross into Lebanon undetected and safe from Israeli air attack. Israel’s official spokesmen and its military held back from making a response, just as the Americans let Syria get away with its hostile interference in the Iraq war.
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Israeli Units Branch East, Face Heavy Hizballah Resistance in Central Sector

July 26, 2006, 4:42 PM (GMT+02:00)

Wednesday, July 25, the IDF suffered a major reverse at Bin Jubeil where HIzballlah fighters regrouped and counter-attacked, inflicting heavy casualties on the Israel mopping-up force. But other IDF contingents had meanwhile embarked on the next stage of the campaign in the Eastern Sector of South Lebanon. This came to light when a series of Israeli air strikes against Hizballah positions and installations around Khiam hit a Unifil post and killed four observers Tuesday night, July 25. Perhaps the most important gain from the crisis is Israel’s recovery of control over its main sources of water, the Wazani springs in the divided Ghajar village. This was achieved in the early hours of the IDF push in the east. As the Israelis advance through the region, they are discovering the depth and breadth of Hizballah’s war preparations. South Lebanon was divided into 176 combat squares controlled from 40 scattered command bunkers.
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