By Greg Myre
The New York Times
Sunday 16 July 2006
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Metula, Israel - Expanding the reach of its airstrikes, Israel on Saturday hit coastal radar installations in northern
Lebanon that it said were targeting its warships. It also struck roads in Lebanon's north and east, with one attack
killing at least 16 civilians, most of them children. Hezbollah forces continued their rocket barrage into northern
Israel, striking the resort city of Tiberias for the first time.
The widening conflict stirred a meeting of world leaders in Russia, where President Bush called on Syria to use its
influence with Hezbollah to end the fighting. At an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, the Arab
League secretary general, Amr Moussa, said the participants "all decided that the peace process has failed," and that
they would turn to the United Nations Security Council for help.
Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes on Saturday, hitting Jounieh, Tripoli and other northern ports.
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The Associated Press
Sunday 16 July 2006
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Haifa, Israel - Lebanese guerillas fired a relentless barrage of rockets into the northern Israeli city of Haifa on
Sunday, killing eight people at a train station and wounding seven others in a dramatic escalation of a five-day-old
conflict that has shattered Mideast peace.
Soon after the Haifa attack, Israeli airstrikes reduced entire apartment buildings to rubble and knocked out
electricity in swaths of the Lebanese capital Sunday.
Israel had already bombarded southern Beirut, a teeming Shiite districts where Hezbollah has its headquarters, prior to
the Haifa bombing. A series of 18 explosions rocked Beirut before sunrise.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed that there would be "far-reaching consequences" for the rocket attack - the
worst since Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon in 2000 after an 18-year occupation. Smoke rose over Haifa and air
raid sirens wailed as the dead and wounded were evacuated. Other rockets hit the city's major oil refinery, gas storage
tanks and a major street during the busy morning rush hour.
Israeli authorities warned all residents in the central city of Tel Aviv and north to be on heightened alert,
reflecting the longer range of the missile attacks.
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