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To: steve harris who wrote (296789)	7/25/2006 4:38:09 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575727

What are you talking about Steve? The only Lebanese article you linked talked about military and civilian deaths on both sides? You keep disproving yourself. Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Fighting rages as Israel besieges Hezbollah border HQ By Agence France Presse (AFP) By Jihad Siqlawi TYRE, Lebanon, July 25, 2006 (AFP) - Fierce fighting raged Tuesday between Israeli forces and Lebanese guerrillas around the border town of Bint Jbeil, a Hezbollah military stronghold besieged by Israeli troops as they push deeper into Lebanese territory. The Israeli army -- which is encountering fierce resistance in its war on Hezbollah despite its clear military superiority -- said it had taken control of Bint Jbeil, but there was no independent confirmation. Lebanese police said Israeli forces on a hilltop overlooking Bint Jbeil from the west sent in parachute commandos about a kilometre (more than half a mile) closer to the town while artillery and aircraft bombarded houses on its outskirts. Two Israeli soldiers had been killed in pitched battles with Shiite militiamen near Bint Jbeil on Monday as Israeli forces moved deeper into Lebanon in an increasingly deadly conflict that is now in its 14th day. Fourteen other soldiers were wounded, six reportedly hit by friendly fire. "Beit Jbeil is in our hands," General Alon Friedman, one of Israel's top commanders for its northern region, told Israeli army radio. "There is now intensive fighting on the ground on the outskirts of both Bint Jbeil and (the nearby village of) Yaroun," said Milos Strugar, spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Strugar could not confirm however if Israeli troops were inside the town, which lies just a few kilometres (miles) from the border and is close to Marun al-Ras, a strategic hilltop village seized by the army on Saturday. "The Israeli army yesterday and during the night brought in reinforcements in the border village of Marun al-Ras and moved them" northward to Bint Jbeil and to the southwest to Yaroun, he told AFP. A Hezbollah statement denied Israeli troops had entered Bint Jbeil, but confirmed that "intensive battles are raging on the outskirts." Israel's advancing forces traded fire with Hezbollah guerrillas along the road between Marun al-Ras and Bint Jbeil before reaching two strategic hilltops overlooking the town from the southeast and southwest, Lebanese police said. "Our aim in Beit Jbeil is to destroy the infrastructure of Hezbollah and to liquidate that organization's terrorists in order to reduce the (rocket) attacks on the north," Israel's Friedman said. Hezbollah said five of its fighters were killed during clashes with Israeli forces. Two Hezbollah medics were also killed while evacuating civilian victims of bombardments, a statement said. Fellow Shiite group Amal said that four of its fighters had been killed. Neither side specified the location or the date of the deaths. Hezbollah's total losses stand at 26 while a total of five Amal fighters have died. In the evening, Israeli forces launched three more air raids east of Tyre, destroying two houses. There were no immediate repotrts of casualties. On Monday, Israeli forces had tried to advance on Bint Jbeil but faced strong resistance from Hezbollah and stopped just short of reaching the outskirts of the town. The latest military deaths brought to 41 -- 24 servicemen and 17 civilians -- the toll of Israelis killed since the conflict erupted on July 12 after Hezbollah militants captured two soldiers and killed eight others in cross-border attacks. Hezbollah, the Party of God which was formed after Israel's bloody 1982 invasion of Lebanon, is demanding a prisoner swap but Israel has so far refused any negotiations. In the latest Israeli air strike, a family of seven, including at least two children, lost their lives when a missile slammed into their home in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, police said. The attack pushed the death toll in Lebanon since the start of Israel's offensive to 394, including 335 civilians, according to a count compiled from reports from medics, police and Hezbollah.--AFP