Middle Orient News

Troops are already on the ground in the area and the operation is considered a widening of limited Israeli action in southern Lebanon, not a signal that a full-scale ground invasion has begun.

As families fled Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre, the regional manager of the agency Christian Aid said “the situation on the ground is grim and getting worse.”

It would be astonishing if Hizbullah and Israel were not now both reflecting on the old adage that it is easier to start a war than to stop one.

Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the “birth pangs of a new Middle East” and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.

A deathly silence prevails in southern Beirut, as Lebanese people are evacuating to escape Israeli bombs. Hezbollah has the region under tight control to prevent infiltration by Israeli agents.

The five Palestinians died when Israeli shells hit their house in Gaza City’s Shijia district on Friday morning, medics and Hamas members said.

Taliban attacked British troops in Garmser district of Helmand province on July 20  which ignited a clash between the two sides.

US forces have committed butchery in Iraq and should leave, the puppet pro-American speaker of the country’s parliament has said.

With thousands of Israeli troops massed on the Lebanese border, Lebanon’s president is warning that his army would defend the country if Israel launches a full-scale ground invasion.

An Israeli military source has ruled out a mass invasion of southern Lebanon