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MAALOT-TARSHIHA, Israel The Lebanese militia Hezbollah killed 12 Israelis - 8 civilians and 4 soldiers - on Thursday, making it Israel’s deadliest day in more than three weeks of conflict. As Israeli troops tried to create a narrow buffer zone inside Lebanon and bombed southern Beirut, Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, warned

Israel has intensified its offensive in Gaza and Lebanon, killing dozens of innocent civilians and inflicting unprecedented damage on the Palestinian and Lebanese infrastructure and economy. Here, Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the staunchest critics of the U.S. policies, tells Demo

Broumana, Lebanon: Hundreds of Gulf national tourists fled Lebanon on Friday through the Lebanese-Syrian border after Beirut airport was shut down since Israeli air raids damaged the runways on Thursday. Tens of Gulf nationals drove their private cars through Al Masna’a custom’s checkpoint at the Lebanese-Syrian border on Friday.

Israeli warships and aircraft were clamping down on Lebanon’s air, sea and land infrastructure on Friday, three days after Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. Israeli warplanes destroyed a building housing the headquarters of Hezbollah guerrillas in south Beirut late Friday, AP reported.