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Israel Resumes Bombing in Lebanon as Fighting Escalates

Correspondents in Lebanon and Israel report on the ongoing Israeli-Hezbollah violence, which entered its 23rd day.

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  • RAY SUAREZ:

    We have two reports tonight from the Middle East, beginning with Martin Geissler of Independent Television News, reporting from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.

  • MARTIN GEISSLER, ITV News Correspondent:

    Northern Israel in flames. On the day this country's prime minister told his people the goal is nearly achieved, Hezbollah launched its most deadly cross-border strike of this war.

    More than 160 Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon in just half an hour. The towns of Acre and Ma'alot bore the brunt of the assault. For the past three weeks, they'd been lucky; the missiles had passed them by. Today, Hezbollah proved they can and will find their targets.

    In the small town of Kiryat Shmona, a rocket embedded itself in the middle of the main street, one of 39 fired into this community in those same 30 minutes.

    Warnings like this are being sounded across northern Israel every single day. Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets might not have the accuracy or the range of the Israeli missiles, but today have served as a reminder to the people here that they're deadly enough.

    There are now 10,000 Israeli troops across the border in Lebanon. It's proving a long, slow job pushing these missiles out of range.