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Israel continued, yesterday evening, its offensive, with the Lebanon against the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. At least ten civilians were killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter on a building in the centre of the port city of tyre, to the South Lebanon, medical sources announced. Hezbollah has killed eight people by a volley of rockets on the city of Haifa. It is the bloodiest attack suffered by the Hebrew State since the Yom Kippur war in 1973.

Four days after the initiation by Israel of air, sea and land offensive intended to find two soldiers abducted by Hezbollah, the Israeli Prime Minister announced yesterday that nothing would prevent his country to hunt Hezbollah from the southern Lebanon. The Navy and air force bombed all weekend long, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the District of Haret Hreik, the "security perimeter" Hezbollah, where dozens of residential buildings and the television of the Shiite militia have been destroyed. Tel Aviv considers that it would take two weeks to neutralize Hezbollah. Meanwhile, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah threatened, yesterday during an appearance on Al-Manar television channel, to use "all means" in the confrontation with Israel, claiming that he had more "red line".

More than 140 civilians killed

The balance sheet at the Lebanon, in four days of fighting, was yesterday at least 148 civilians killed and 355 injured, according to counts of the AFP, not to mention the victims of the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah, which denied that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was injured. The Israeli army has called the people of the South of the Lebanon to evacuate the region, which already operate his commandos, believing that the flight of tens of thousands of people to the North would have "the necessary pressure on Hezbollah."

According to Tel Aviv, Hezbollah fired a total 300 rockets, one, probably Iranian manufacturing, killed four sailors Friday on an ultramodern corvette of the Israeli Navy. Same source, alongside rockets capable of hitting Haifa 40 kilometres south of the border, Hezbollah would have 150 projectile with a range of 200 kilometres, thus reaching the Israel economic lung, Tel Aviv. The Chief Israeli staff, Dan Halutz, found that these missiles were certainly provided by the Syria. Although one of his raids had touched a pro-Syrian Palestinian movement PFLP-GC base two kilometres from the Syrian border, Israel said yesterday that she did not "at this point" plan of attack against the Syria, which replied that any attack would share a response "unlimited and by all means". The other well-known support of Hezbollah, the Iran, has warned Israel an extension of the conflict, which would incur losses "unimaginable".

On the diplomatic front, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has accused, Saturday, Israel to impose "collective punishment" on the Lebanese for the actions of Hezbollah and called for an immediate ceasefire under the auspices of the United Nations, whose delegation was expected yesterday to the Lebanon, at the same time for the coming of the High Representative of the European Union for foreign policy, Javier Solana. That Israel refused, as long as Hezbollah will not be disarmed.

"An Iranian war."

Western countries have had trouble of the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg (read pages 4 and 5) to hide their differences, President George w. Bush who bear full responsibility for the crisis on "Hezbollah, the Syria and the Iranian connection", and in opposition to a cease-fire. Jacques Chirac has asked the judgment of "all the forces that involve security, stability." and the sovereignty of the Lebanon The British Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced an "arc of extremism" supported by the Syria and the Iran that attempts to disrupt the "movement to democracy" in Iraq, the Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. The Arab League could also see its divisions, Saturday in Cairo, the Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia condemning, although Israeli operations in the Lebanon, but also denouncing "adventurism does not serve Arab interests" of Hezbollah, while other countries considered this inappropriate statement. Lebanese druze leader Walid Jumblatt felt his side that the current conflict was "an Iranian war" and non-Lebanese. "The Iran said the United States: you want to we fight in the Gulf and destroy our nuclear program." I attack you in your House, Israel.