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Israeli missiles pound Beirut

For the first time, mostly Christian suburbs are targeted
Aug. 4, 2006. 03:59 PM
SAM GHATTAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Israeli warplanes today destroyed four key bridges on Lebanon’s last untouched highway, severing the country’s final major connection to Syria and deepening its isolation.

Aircraft on a mission to destroy weapons caches hit a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading vegetables, killing at least 28 near the Lebanon-Syria border as Hezbollah launched its deepest rocket strike inside Israel

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“The Israeli enemy’s bombing of bridges and roads is aimed at tightening the blockade on the Lebanese, cutting communications between them and starving them,” Lahoud said.

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