Hezbollah TV says 35 Israeli soldiers killed or wounded
BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon — Israeli warplanes pounded Hezbollah targets Tuesday and ground fighting intensified in border towns, a day after Israel announced it would send thousands of troops deeper into Lebanon to secure the territory until multinational forces arrive.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) warned Lebanese residents living in two villages north of the Litani river to leave the area, indicating strikes there were imminent, FOX News has learned. IDF says it has information confirming that there is Hezbollah activity in the area.
Hezbollah television claimed that 35 Israeli soldiers had been killed or wounded in battles at the Lebanon-Israeli border town of Ainta al-Shaab, from which Hezbollah guerrillas crossed the border on July 12 and captured two Israeli soldiers.
[. Don't forget to take a huge grain of salt with the "Hezbollah television" reports.]
Olmert: Hezbollah weakened every day
NORTHERN ISRAEL (CNN) -- The Israeli military
engaged in fierce fighting Tuesday with Hezbollah forces just across the
border with Lebanon while warning residents almost 20 miles inside the
country to leave the area.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israeli
forces were weakening Hezbollah daily and that no cease-fire would come
until Israel was safe from a future war.
Israel says it has wiped out 300 of the estimated 2,000 Hezbollah
fighters in Lebanon during its three-week offensive
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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 1, 2006 at 01:11 PM in , |