TYRE — Hussein Ali Ayoub was washing his face one morning in his border village of Maroun Ras in southern Lebanon when the ceiling suddenly collapsed.

JANDIRES, Syria — Grief and shock swept through this small, impoverished village in northwestern Syria Saturday as it buried 23 of its people who were killed when Israeli missiles slammed into a refrigerated warehouse just across the border in Lebanon.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Hizbollah’s sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the group’s deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel’s most advanced tanks.