Israeli jets pound Lebanon
2006-07-15 09:35
Beirut - Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Lebanon early on Saturday, targeting bridges and fuel storage tanks and gas stations in the east and south, security officials said.
Hezbollah's Al Manar television station said at least three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Hermel, in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
Israeli fighter jets destroyed the two bridges, the Lebanese officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to talk to the media.
The jets pounded a mountainous area near the border with Syria where radio and satellite TV antennas are installed, they said.
Another strike targeted three bridges south of Beirut early on Saturday, officials said.
Six gas stations and fuel storage tanks were also set ablaze in attacks along the coastal highway linking Beirut to the south of the country.
The Arab Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel also reported that Hezbollah's guerrillas had fired dozens of rockets at the Israeli town of Nahariya by the early hours of the morning.
The renewed violence came as the Israeli navy searched for four sailors who went missing on Friday after Hezbollah struck a warship off the Lebanese coast.
- AP