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Bloodshed continued
Meanwhile, the fighting went on.

Early Tuesday, Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs, Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station reported. Warplanes also fired four missiles on the eastern city of Baalbek, witnesses said. Both are Hezbollah strongholds. There was no word on casualties.

Attacks by Israeli warplanes and big guns late Sunday and early Monday killed 17 people and wounded at least 53, security officials said. Israeli government spokesman Asaf Shariv said ground troops also entered southern Lebanon, attacked Hezbollah bases near the border and quickly returned to Israel.

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Israel said its planes and artillery struck 60 targets in Lebanon overnight in retaliation for Sunday’s 20-rocket barrage on Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city.

In the deepest-ever Hezbollah missile strike into Israel, Katyusha rockets struck the Israeli town of Atlit, 35 miles south of the border. Nobody was hurt.

Later, guerrillas fired three rocket barrages into the port city of Haifa, destroying the three-story building and wounding at least three people, Israeli medics said.

Late Monday, a further barrage of rockets hit northern Israel. Some landed in Haifa and one near a hospital in the northern town of Safed, injuring five people.

Monday violence
Israel also kept up pressure in the Gaza Strip as it searched for another soldier seized by Hamas-linked militants there. It bombed the empty Palestinian Foreign Ministry building for the second time in less than a week in what it said was a warning to the ruling Hamas party.

Also Monday, Israel attack jets killed two people in the Beirut harbor and started a large fire.

Warplanes set fire to a gas storage tank in the northern neighborhood of Dawra and another fuel storage tank at Beirut airport. The airport has been closed since Thursday, when Israeli jets blasted its runways.

An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon destroyed at least one long-range Iranian missile capable of hitting Tel Aviv. Israeli military officials said aircraft targeted a truck carrying the weapons before they could be launched.

Israeli fighter jets again hit the Beirut to Damascus highway, which has been targeted as part of a strategy of severing Lebanon’s links to the outside world. Two people were killed, Lebanese officials said.

Eight Lebanese soldiers were killed when Israeli jets hit a fishing port at Abdeh in northern Lebanon near a highway leading to Syria. Twelve Lebanese soldiers also were wounded.

An Israeli missile strike on southern Lebanon missed its apparent target — a Hezbollah site — and hit a private house, killing two people, security officials said.

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