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Haifa hit as conflict continues
Two Israelis have been killed in a fresh Hezbollah rocket attack on Haifa as Israel's air force continues to pound Lebanon for an 11th sucessive day.
At least ten rockets hit Israel's third-largest city, killing two civilians and seriously wounding more than 14 others on Sunday.
Hezbollah has fired over 1,100 rockets at Israeli towns and cities in the last 11 days killing at least 17 people.
Israel has responded by attacking Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, and carrying out air and artillery strikes against civil and governmental infrastructure. The attacks have killed at least 320 Lebanese civilians.
Air raid sirens also sounded on Sunday morning in the town of Zichron Yaakov, which lies 60km (40 miles) south of the Lebanese border.
The army said it was checking if any rockets had hit the town - which would be the furthest the rockets had reached since the conflict began.
Battle for village
The Israeli army has also confirmed that it has captured the Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras after several days of fierce fighting against Hezbollah fighters based there.
"It can be said that the area of Maroun al-Ras, that had served as a [Hezbollah] vantage point over Avivim, now serves as an [Israeli] vantage point over Bint Jbail," Major-General Benny Gantz, the Israeli ground-force commander, said on Saturday.
Six Israeli commandos and an unknown number of Hezbollah members died in the battle for the village which is less than a kilometre inside Lebanese territory.
Fighting was still continuing on Sunday morning.
"There is some small fighting around the village, not inside, this morning," Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon said. "The Israelis have been on the Lebanese side of the borders for four days now."
Strugar said there were no other Israeli forces inside Lebanese territory at any other point along the border on Sunday.
'No invasion planned'
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, told the cabinet he would be ready to negotiate with the Lebanese government, but that the conflict would "last a very long time" while Israel "destroyed terrorist infrastructure."
"Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is a partner for negotiations when the time is right for that," he said during the cabinet meeting.
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Hezbollah has fired over 1,100 rockets at Israeli towns and cities in the last 11 days killing at least 17 people.
Israel has responded by attacking Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, and carrying out air and artillery strikes against civil and governmental infrastructure. The attacks have killed at least 320 Lebanese civilians.
Air raid sirens also sounded on Sunday morning in the town of Zichron Yaakov, which lies 60km (40 miles) south of the Lebanese border.
The army said it was checking if any rockets had hit the town - which would be the furthest the rockets had reached since the conflict began.
Battle for village
The Israeli army has also confirmed that it has captured the Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras after several days of fierce fighting against Hezbollah fighters based there.
"It can be said that the area of Maroun al-Ras, that had served as a [Hezbollah] vantage point over Avivim, now serves as an [Israeli] vantage point over Bint Jbail," Major-General Benny Gantz, the Israeli ground-force commander, said on Saturday.
Six Israeli commandos and an unknown number of Hezbollah members died in the battle for the village which is less than a kilometre inside Lebanese territory.
Fighting was still continuing on Sunday morning.
"There is some small fighting around the village, not inside, this morning," Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon said. "The Israelis have been on the Lebanese side of the borders for four days now."
Strugar said there were no other Israeli forces inside Lebanese territory at any other point along the border on Sunday.
'No invasion planned'
Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, told the cabinet he would be ready to negotiate with the Lebanese government, but that the conflict would "last a very long time" while Israel "destroyed terrorist infrastructure."
"Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is a partner for negotiations when the time is right for that," he said during the cabinet meeting.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8B36571-B4E2-406E-AE9B-4EC7274FF26A.htm
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At least six Israeli bombs fell on the coastal city of Tyre in a 20-minute span Sunday morning, killing one civilian and wounding at least 20 others.
Israeli airstrikes also hit southern Beirut, and Israel Defense Forces said it struck a building that "serves Hezbollah" in the town of Sidon.
Meanwhile, a barrage of rockets landed in and around the Israeli port city of Haifa Sunday morning, killing at least two people and wounding 11, witnesses and local officials said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/mideast/index.html