mardi, juillet 18, 2006

Actualité - Death Toll Jumps Over 200 in Lebanon

Franc-Parler publie une dépêche de Prensa Latina News Agency à propos des crimes des forces d'occupation sionistes au Liban contre les populations civils. Les bombardements de l'aviation et de l'artillerie israélienne font des centaines de morts et blessées.

Beirut, Jul 18 (Prensa Latina) - Israel continued its air strikes and artillery shelling against Lebanon on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 220, while over 440 others have been wounded, most of them civilians.

In Tuesday air raids by Israeli warplanes in Lebanon, a missile hit and destroyed a house in the south Lebanese village of Aitarun, killing 13 civilians, all from one family and including children. Another four civilians died in strikes elsewhere in the south, local police reported.

Two Lebanese Army barracks at Jumhur and Kafarshima areas, east of Beirut, were also targeted by an Israeli missile, which killed 10 Lebanese soldiers and wounded 40.

According to Arab sources, on Tuesday, the Israeli Army continue targeting civil and military facilities, oil reserves, bridges, roads, and even ambulances on nearby roads.

Al Manar channel television denounced that Tel Aviv warplanes shelled its central building again, without preventing the station to continue transmitting.

Israeli aircraft also struck Beirut"s southern suburbs, and the northern city of Tripoli early on Tuesday.

The Christian coastal town of Byblos, north of Beirut, where thousands of Lebanese have searched for refugees, was also attacked on Tuesday and two trucks were damaged without inflicting casualties, police said.

Also Tuesday, Tel Aviv warplanes also struck the eastern town of Baalbek, as well Beirut"s southern suburbs and the northern city of Tripoli.

Lebanon has repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire, but world powers have limited themselves to making uncommitted statements.

Israeli began its fierce aggression against Lebanon last Wednesday under the pretext that two Tel Aviv soldiers were captured by the Lebanese Shia resistance group Hezbollah.

Thousands of foreigners have fled from Lebanon, some by road to Syria, others seeking places on US and European ships, which have been evacuating their nationals from the Arab country.

(Prensa Latina News Agency)

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