Here's a thread to post and discuss the bombings in Lebanon by Israel and of Israel by Hezbollah.
Israel pursues strikes on Lebanon
Man holds remains of Katyusha rocket in Safed, northern Israel
Hezbollah has fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel
Israel is continuing to subject Lebanon to strikes by land, sea and air, following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants.
More than 50 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the attacks.
Israeli jets have struck southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, and the main Beirut-Damascus road.
Hezbollah has hit Israeli towns with rocket attacks and Israeli sources said the group had fired on the northern port city of Haifa.
Hezbollah had said it would attack Haifa if Israeli planes bombed Beirut but denied firing any rockets at Israel's third largest city.
However, it has killed at least two Israelis and injured dozens in rocket attacks into Israel in the past two days.
The Israeli ambassador in Washington, Danny Ayalon, described the Haifa incident as a "major escalation" of the crisis.
Israel later bombed targets in southern Beirut, where Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has offices, Lebanese security sources said. A power plant was also reportedly hit.
And Lebanon's road to Damascus - the main arterial route - was closed by Israeli jet attacks in the central mountains region, Lebanese officials said.
On Thursday, Israeli forces twice struck the international airport in Beirut.
Mr Ayalon said the international community should make it clear to Iran and Syria - which Israel says form an "axis of terror" with Hezbollah and Palestinian militants Hamas - that they were "playing with fire".
Calls for calm
According to Syrian television, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad telephoned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday night to say there would be a "fierce response" to any Israeli attack on Syria.
"If the Zionist regime commits another stupid move and attacks Syria, this will be considered like attacking the whole Islamic world," Mr Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile the UN Security Council has arranged an emergency meeting for Friday at Lebanon's request.
International calls for calm are growing, with Russia, France and the EU saying Israel's response to the capture of two soldiers was disproportionate.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel to exercise restraint but also demanded that Syria put pressure on Hezbollah to stop attacks on Israel.
Lebanese ministers have called for a ceasefire with Israel, saying that all means should be used to end "open aggression" against their country.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Israel was responding to "an unprovoked act of aggression" by Lebanon.
The offensive follows a day of heavy fighting on Wednesday in which the Israelis suffered their worst losses on the border for several years.
Eight soldiers were killed and two were injured, in addition to the two captured in a Hezbollah ambush.
Hezbollah has said the captured soldiers will not be returned without a release deal for Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Israel is also continuing a separate offensive in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli soldier was in a cross border raid by Palestinian militants last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5178492.stm
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Hezbollah leader vows 'open war'
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has promised "open war" against Israel, in an address broadcast shortly after his Beirut offices were bombed by Israel.
The militant group said its leader was unhurt in the attack. It was not clear when his remarks were recorded.
The raid came as Israel stepped up its offensive to free two Israeli soldiers seized by Hezbollah. More than 60 Lebanese have been killed so far.
Israel's chief of staff, Dan Halutz, said the soldiers were still alive.
A third soldier, captured by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip where Israel is conducting a separate operation, is also still alive, he said.
Hezbollah has continued rocket attacks on northern Israel - 70 were fired on Friday alone.
A mother and daughter died in an attack on the town of Meron. Two Israelis died in attacks on Thursday.
Sheikh Nasrallah, in an address on Hezbollah's TV channel in Lebanon, threatened Israel, saying: "You wanted an open war and we are ready for an open war."
He referred to an Israeli warship he said had launched attacks from of the coast of Lebanon, saying: "Look at the warship that has attacked Beirut, while it burns and sinks before your very eyes."
Israel later confirmed that one of its warships had been lightly damaged by rockets fired from the shore.
The Hezbollah leader promised "war on every level". He said the Israeli coastal city of Haifa would come under attack, "and believe me, even beyond Haifa".
"Our homes will not be the only ones to be destroyed, our children will not be the only ones to die," he said.
The crisis began when Hezbollah guerrillas seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid from Lebanon on Wednesday. Eight Israeli troops were also killed.
Israel responded with a major offensive - its biggest in more than two decades. The targets included not only Hezbollah positions but strategic sites like main roads, bridges and Beirut's international airport.
Residential areas near Hezbollah positions have been hit in air strikes, the group said.
Israel has warned residents by leaflet to stay away from Hezbollah locations.
Calls for restraint
In an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Lebanon called for an end to the Israeli operation.
Bush urges Israel to 'limit harm'
The offensive was destroying infrastructure and causing the death of innocent civilians in full view of the international community, said Nouhad Mahmoud, Lebanon's ambassador to the UN.
Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman said Israel had no choice but to react to Hezbollah's aggression, describing the group as "merely the finger on the bloodstained and long-reaching arms of Syria and Iran".
The escalation has sparked international calls for restraint.
French President Jacques Chirac said the Israeli air strikes were "completely disproportionate" and the Vatican described them as an attack on a sovereign and free nation.
Mr Olmert said he would agree to a ceasefire if Hezbollah returned the two captured soldiers and stopped firing rockets at northern Israel, and Lebanon implemented UN Security Council resolution 1559, calling for the disarmament of the militant group.
Hezbollah has said the captured soldiers will not be returned without a release deal for Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab prisoners held in Israeli jails.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5182048.stm
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All this over some soldiers?
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