DAY 6, By Joel Greenberg, Tribune foreign correspondent, Israeli warplanes continued their onslaught on the Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, reducing apartment buildings to rubble and knocking out power in wide areas. The army said it warned residents of seven villages near the border with Israel to vacate their homes before a heavy assault. Hezbollah militants fired volleys of rockets at Israel’s third-largest city Sunday, killing eight people and wounding more than 20 in the worst single attack in Israel in five days of widening conflict with the Lebanese guerrilla group. Waves of Israeli air strikes across Lebanon killed at least 28 people.
The death toll since Wednesday was believed to exceed 200. Most of those killed have been civilians, and most have been Lebanese.The rocket attacks on Haifa emptied the streets of the port city of 270,000. Residents hunkered down in their homes and took cover in bombproof rooms and shelters as sirens warned of missile strikes. Pedestrians ran for cover as the sirens wailed, and motorists stopped their cars beneath overpasses. Pls click READ MORE to view more pictures, and click on news archive to view pictures of day1 and day2.