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World War III **NEWZ** 22/7/6....Israel Calls Up Reserves, a Sign of Wider Ground Raids |
www.nytimes.com/
July 21, 2006
Israel Calls Up Reserves, a Sign of Wider Ground Raids
By GREG MYRE and JAD MOUAWAD
JERUSALEM, July 21 =E2=80=94With small units already operating in southern
Lebanon, the Israeli military massed armored vehicles near its northern
border today and called up several thousand reserve soldiers,
suggesting that expanded ground operations and extended combat may lie
ahead.
The heavy fighting, now in its 10th day, showed no signs of letting up.
The Israeli Air Force blasted targets throughout Lebanon today, and for
the second day, dropped leaflets in Hezbollah-dominated areas of south
Lebanon warning residents to move north of the Litani River. The
leaflets also hinted at the prospect of wider Israeli ground
operations.
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, most of them Shiite villagers, live
south of the river, which is about 12 miles north of Lebanon=E2=80=99s bord=
er
with Israel. Many already have fled, and more are leaving daily.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, continued to rain rockets on northern Israel.
Israeli jets hit Shiite districts in Beirut=E2=80=99s southern suburbs, the
eastern Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon around sunrise. The Israelis
also bombed the Mdeirej bridge on the main Beirut-Damascus highway,
which had already been hit twice before.
Counting at least 12 Lebanese killed today, about 350 people have so
far lost their lives in the Israeli air, sea and ground assault
throughout Lebanon. The great majority of those killed were civilians,
according to Lebanese officials. An estimated half-million Lebanese
throughout the country have fled their homes.
Thirty-four Israelis have been killed so far, 19 soldiers and 15
civilians.
=E2=80=9CHuman life is of supreme value, but this is a demanding operation,
and we are at war,=E2=80=9D said Maj. Gen. Udi Adam, who commands the Israe=
li
forces fighting on the Lebanese front, in remarks shown on Israeli
television. =E2=80=9CWar costs human lives =E2=80=94 look how many civilian=
s have
been killed. I suggest we don=E2=80=99t count the dead until it=E2=80=99s a=
ll
over.=E2=80=9D
Today=E2=80=99s wave of rocket attacks by Hezbollah hit the Israeli port ci=
ty
of Haifa and other towns in northern Israel. More than 10 people were
wounded when a rocket hit a Haifa apartment building, Israeli officials
said.
Overall, more than 20 people were injured in northern Israel by more
than 50 Hezbollah rockets that hit the region, according to the Israeli
military.
Rocket fire by Hezbollah has tailed off somewhat in the last few days,
down from a rate of more than 100 a day in the first few days of the
fighting.
Israel claims it has significantly weakened Hezbollah=E2=80=99s capabilitie=
s,
but acknowledges that it will not be able to completely cripple the
militant Shiite group.
Israeli military officers and government officials have said that they
do not want to send a large ground force into southern Lebanon. Israeli
troops withdrew from the area in 2000 after more than two decades of
occupation.
=E2=80=9CWe shall carry out limited ground operations as necessary in order
to strike at the terrorism which strikes at us,=E2=80=9D the Army=E2=80=99s=
chief
of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said this evening.
Still. columns of tanks and armored personnel carriers are massed on
roads near the border, and the Israeli leadership says that small
groups of ground troops have been entering Lebanon to carry out
operations that cannot be readily handled with air strikes.
Those operations include seeking out Hezbollah rockets and launchers as
well as bunkers and other Hezbollah strongholds tucked away in and
around villages in south Lebanon.
The military has not provided figures, but relatively few soldiers are
inside Lebanon at any given time, according to military officials. They
are penetrating only a couple of miles at most into Lebanese territory,
and generally move in and out without holding fixed positions, the
officials said.
Israel=E2=80=99s defence minister, Amir Peretz, said that the number of
Israeli troops on the ground in Lebanon would be determined by military
necessity. He stressed that the military would not allow itself to
become bogged down in Lebanese territory, Israel radio reported.
Hezbollah has already demonstrated that it can put up fierce resistance
when Israeli ground troops cross the border.
Five Israeli soldiers were killed inside Lebanon on the first day of
fighting, July 12. In intense firefights on Wednesday and Thursday, six
Israeli soldiers were killed just inside Lebanon, according to the
military. Hezbollah fighters were also killed in these exchanges.
In a statement, the military said the reserves were being called up
=E2=80=9Cin order to enable the reinforcement of troops situated along the
northern border.=E2=80=9D
The statement did not say if the reserves would be sent to the Lebanese
border area. One possibility is that standing military units in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip areas could be transferred to the Lebanese
front, while the reserves could replace those troops in the Palestinian
areas.
Lebanon=E2=80=99s defense minister, Elias Murr, said Thursday that the
Lebanese Army, which has so far remained on the sidelines, would enter
the battle if Israel invaded.
=E2=80=9CThe Lebanese Army will resist and defend the country and prove that
it is an army worth of respect,=E2=80=9D he said.
With no end to the fighting in sight, humanitarian concerns are
growing.
International aid groups say they need urgent access to southern
Lebanon to provide medical assistance and food. Israel=E2=80=99s U.N.
ambassador, Dan Gillerman, said he expected a safe corridor for
humanitarian assistance to be opened by Saturday.
In the southern Lebanese town of Tyre, tempers ran high as municipal
officials faced increasingly frustrated residents demanding food,
humanitarian aid, and services. But the local government could do
little other than to ask for patience.
=E2=80=9CThere are no more supplies,=E2=80=9D said Mohammad al Husseini, th=
e son of
Tyre=E2=80=99s mayor, who was helping with logistical efforts. =E2=80=9CWe=
=E2=80=99re
registering people for rations, but can=E2=80=99t give them anything. I thi=
nk
the next thing is for us to be beaten up.=E2=80=9D
The municipality has sought to buy every piece of bread it can get, but
only one bakery has remained open; the rest are shut, either out of
fear of the bombing or because the fuel that fired their ovens ran out.
Fruit and vegetables are hard to come by, meat even more so. About the
only edible things still available in the town=E2=80=99s market are the
watermelons from local farms.
Most food staples are plentiful about 20 miles further north, across
the Litani river. But getting supplies here has become extremely
difficult because bridges over the river are bombed out.
Still, Tyre is more fortunate than some other towns, where basic foods
like bread and rice have run out and heavy bombing makes it impossible
for residents to leave, officials said. Gasoline, available only on the
black market, is being sold in one-liter water bottles rather than the
usual five-gallon cans.
Almost 70 percent of the south=E2=80=99s population has left the area, local
officials estimate. The situation has grown so bad that many officials
in the area look at departing convoys with some relief, because they
mean fewer mouths to feed.
In Beirut, the evacuation of foreigners from Lebanon continued, with
helicopters and barges ferrying evacuees to military ships in the
Mediterranean just offshore. About 4,500 Americans were waiting to move
out in the second day of large-scale evacuations of United States
citizens.
In all, about 60,000 foreigners and Lebanese with dual citizenship have
fled the country in sea evacuations, and another 40,000 have left
overland through Syria, according to the Lebanese government.
In Israel, citizens have rallied around their government and the
military. A survey published today in the newspaper Maariv said that 78
percent of Israelis were satisfied with the performance of Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, and 95 percent believed Israel=E2=80=99s military
response was =E2=80=9Cjustified and correct.=E2=80=9D
About 800 people responded to the survey questions, and the margin of
sampling error was plus or minus 4 percent, the newspaper said.
Israeli forces also continued to fight on a second front, in the Gaza
Strip.
Israeli tank fire hit the home of a Hamas militant, killing him and
three members of his family, according to Palestinian security
officials. The Israeli military said that two armed men with an
anti-tank missile had been spotted on the balcony of the house.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya, called again
for an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli corporal, Gilad
Shalit, whose capture by Palestinian militants on June 25 touched off
the crisis in Gaza. Mr. Haniya said the call for a prisoner swap was
=E2=80=9Ca national Palestinian demand.=E2=80=9D
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to the Middle East on
Sunday in search of a resolution to the crisis. With the Bush
administration strongly supporting Israel, her visit could signal
whether a diplomatic solution is on the horizon, though there has been
little evidence of this so far.
Jad Mouawad reported from Beirut for this article, and Greg Myre from
Jerusalem. Hassan Fattah contributed reporting from Tyre, Lebanon.
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21 Jul 2006 11:54:17 PM |
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www.canada.com/
Israel massing tanks, troops on Lebanese border
Sam F. Ghattas, Canadian Press
Published: Friday, July 21, 2006 Article tools
BEIRUT (AP) - Israel massed tanks and troops on the border, called up
reserves and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern
Lebanon as it prepared Friday for a likely ground invasion to set up a
deep buffer zone.
The army's chief of staff said forces would conduct ground operations
as needed in Lebanon, but they would be "limited." Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz
also said nearly 100 Hezbollah guerrillas have been killed in the
offensive in Lebanon.
"We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it
will fight us. If we don't reach it, it will reach us," Halutz said in
a nationally televised news conference. "We will also conduct limited
ground operations as much as needed in order to harm the terror that
harms us."
An Israeli envoy said the country will allow aid supplies into Lebanon,
a day after the United Nations warned of a growing humanitarian crisis
in the country.
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Israel massing tanks, troops on Lebanese border
Sam F. Ghattas, Canadian Press
Published: Friday, July 21, 2006 Article tools
BEIRUT (AP) - Israel massed tanks and troops on the border, called up
reserves and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern
Lebanon as it prepared Friday for a likely ground invasion to set up a
deep buffer zone.
The army's chief of staff said forces would conduct ground operations
as needed in Lebanon, but they would be "limited." Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz
also said nearly 100 Hezbollah guerrillas have been killed in the
offensive in Lebanon.
"We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it
will fight us. If we don't reach it, it will reach us," Halutz said in
a nationally televised news conference. "We will also conduct limited
ground operations as much as needed in order to harm the terror that
harms us."
Do not fear................ "No weapon that is formed against thee shall
prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou
shalt condemn.".Isaiah 54:17
An Israeli envoy said the country will allow aid supplies into Lebanon,
a day after the United Nations warned of a growing humanitarian crisis
in the country.
Romans 11:25 "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part
is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out
of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes."
Amen!
Jeff...
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