Monday, July 17, 2006

Middle East crisis: Key maps

location based services

Israel continues its bombardment of Lebanon and Hezbollah fires rockets into Israel as the crisis precipitated by Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers intensifies.
KEY FLASHPOINTS: 16-17 JULY

Safed: Six people reported hurt as Hezbollah rocket lands near hospital
Rmeileh bridge: Ten people killed as Israeli air strike hits two cars travelling from Sidon towards Beirut
Haifa: Port closed after further Hezbollah rocket attacks. Eight people killed in separate attacks on Sunday
Beirut: Fuel tanks attacked in the port area, the airport and suburb of Dawra. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station attacked on Sunday
Beirut-Sidon road: Seven people reported killed in airstrike
Wazzani: Two people reported killed in Israeli missile strike
Abdeh and Tripoli: Some 15 Lebanese soldiers reported killed in airstrikes on north Lebanon ports.
Marwahin: An apparent air strike on a road near the port kills at least 17 people, including a number of children
Tyre: At least 10 people are killed in a strike on a building in the port city of Tyre
Sidon: An air strike hits a petrol station
Jiyyeh: Israeli planes return to bomb power station again
Hermel: Three civilians killed in an attack on a town on the Syrian border, Hezbollah TV says
Baalbek: Israeli planes bomb the eastern city of Baalbek, where local Hezbollah leaders were believed to have gathered
Tiberias: Hezbollah rockets hit town 35km from the Lebanese border
Gaza: At least five Palestinians killed as Israeli forces move back into the town of Beit Hanoun.

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