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JERUSALEM, July 14 The Israeli government agreed today to press ahead with
its military operations in Lebanon, concentrating on targets associated with
the Hezbollah militia, including the bombing this evening of the headquarters
of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli officials said.
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Israeli jets fired missiles at a bridge in southern Lebanon.
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Israeli airstrikes left a crater in southern Beirut.
They said that the Israeli strategy is to diminish or destroy the power of
Hezbollah, which has created a state within a state in southern Lebanon, and
to ensure that the Lebanese army replaces Hezbollah on the border with Israel,
as demanded by the United Nations.
In response to a new barrage of rockets today, said Isaac Herzog, a member of
the Israeli security cabinet, Weve decided to put an end to this saga and to
change the rules of the game whereby a terrorist organization that is part of
the Lebanese government can push the region to the abyss.
Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan, a member of the general staff, said: We want to
put Hezbollah out of business. We want to force the Lebanese government to take
responsibility and deploy along the border and dismantle Hezbollah, which if it
is allowed, will prevent any stabilization and peace process in the Middle
East.
Mr. Nasrallah, who was unhurt in the bombing of the apartment building that
serves as his home and headquarters, said in a statement: To the Zionists, you
wanted an open war and you will have it. He promised to reach Haifa and even
farther, and said that Hezbollah had destroyed an Israeli naval ship off
Lebanon. Israel reported that a ship had sustained light damage.
As Israeli warplanes bombed the Beirut airport to tighten the sea, air and
land blockade of Lebanon, they also hit targets in the citys Shia suburbs,
where Hezbollah has its headquarters, television and radio stations. Israel
also bombed Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, where the group crossed the
border into Israel on Wednesday to kill eight Israeli soldiers and capture two
others.
Hezbollah rockets continued to fall on Israel, with more than 90 hitting
northern Israel, wounding at least 60 people, the Israelis said, especially in
Nahariya and Safed. Two more Israelis, a grandmother and her 5-year-old
grandson, were killed and 10 were wounded, including three other children, when
a rocket fell on their house in Meron. Two Israelis died on Thursday. In total,
more than 300 rockets have hit Israel, killing four people and wounding more
than 150.
Hezbollah has between 10,000 and 12,000 rockets of varying ranges and types,
General Nehushtan said, most of them provided by Syria and Iran.
Five Lebanese died in the airstrikes today, bringing the death total there
over the last three days to 66, with more than 200 wounded, according to the
Lebanese police.
Israel has called the attack by Hezbollah on its soldiers in Israeli
territory an act of war, and said that it is holding the government of Lebanon,
which includes Hezbollah ministers, to be responsible.
Israel hopes that the Lebanese government, pressed by the international
community, will move its army into southern Lebanon. But Israeli officials say
they believe that their campaign against Hezbollah is popular with many
Lebanese, who believe their own government is too weak to take on Mr. Nasrallah.
Israel has also been buoyed by the mild reaction of Arab governments, who
have not come to Hezbollahs defense not even Syria and Iran. Israel was also
pleased by a statement from the Saudi government on Thursday that blamed
Hezbollah for adventurism and called on it to end the crisis.
A distinction must be made between legitimate resistance and uncalculated
adventures taken by elements inside Lebanon and those behind them without
recourse to the legal authorities or consulting and coordinating with Arab
nations, said a statement published on the official news agency SPA. These
elements should bear the responsibility for their irresponsible actions and
they alone should end the crisis they have created.
Mr. Olmert has said that he has no intention of negotiating a prisoner
exchange with either Hezbollah or Palestinian militants in Gaza who entered
Israel and captured another soldier June 25. Israel is engaged in a
simultaneous military effort in Gaza, from which it withdrew its settlers and
troops a year ago, in what one Israeli official described as a war on
terrorism that is making a point on two fronts against Hamas and Hezbollah,
both semi-state actors that are not following the rules of sovereign states.
Until now, the Israeli officials said, the Lebanese campaign, largely limited
to airstrikes and naval shelling, has been largely limited to infrastructure,
not too dramatic, and the Hezbollah neighborhood in southern Beirut, which was
leafleted first to ask residents to leave. Airstrikes, the most intense over
Lebanon since the 1982 war, have been carried out against Hezbollah rocket and
ammunition stores, launching sites, barracks and buildings.
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