*How do you fight against terrorists that use hospitals as quarters? http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/02/mideast.main/index.html JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel's military on Wednesday released video that it said proved a hospital it raided overnight deep inside Lebanon was actually a Hezbollah headquarters. Israeli special forces raided the hospital near Baalbeck, Lebanon, snatching five militants and killing 10 others, Israel's army said. Hezbollah disputed the Israeli military account, saying five civilians were arrested who are not members of the militant group. Israeli video of the scene appeared to show weapons that Israeli soldiers discovered during a search of the hospital. (Watch Israeli video showing soldiers searching the hospital -- 1:34) Baalbeck is 70 miles north of the Israeli border. To the south, Hezbollah stepped up its assault on Israel, firing its highest daily tally of salvos yet, 215 rockets, killing a civilian and wounding seven others, according to the IDF. One rocket shot farther south than any other in the three-week conflict, landing inside the Palestinian-controlled West Bank, Israeli police said. Israel's 'long arm' The Israeli military video of the Baalbeck raid shows Israeli airstrikes on vehicles, which the Israeli military said were carrying Hezbollah supplies to the hospital. "The IDF and the air force demonstrated their long arm, their ability to reach everywhere that Hezbollah sees fit to situate itself, even if it chooses a hospital as its headquarters," said Israeli Brig. Gen. Yohanan Loker. Other images showed Israeli commandos rifling through file cabinets in an office inside the hospital, where the IDF said it found ammunition and weapons. Loker said the operation was headed by the Israeli air force and involved the air force's commando unit as well as a special forces commando unit of the IDF. Hezbollah fighters were using the hospital and its surrounding area as a logistical base, housing many of its leaders, according to Israeli Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz. The Baalbeck raid began late Tuesday as Israeli troops hit the ground about six miles (10 km) north of the city, Lebanese security sources said. Lebanese Internal Security Forces said 16 people were killed and 13 were wounded during the Baalbeck airstrike. In addition to killing and capturing militants, Israeli forces also seized intelligence information in the hospital, Halutz said. No Israeli forces were injured in the raid, he said. The Associated Press quoted residents who said the hospital is financed by an Iranian charity that is close to Hezbollah. Hezbollah told AP the facility was empty of patients at the time of the raid. "It was empty last night, there was no one there," said the anonymous spokesman. One of a series of air raids struck the village of Al Jamaliyeh, less than a mile from the hospital, AP reported. A missile hit the house of the village's mayor, Hussein Jamaleddin, instantly killing his son, brother, and five other relatives, according to AP. "Where is the press? Where is the media to see this massacre? Count our dead. Count our body parts," Jamaleddin told The Associated Press on the telephone, minutes after the missile strike. A family of seven -- a mother, father and their five children -- were killed in another air raid on an area near Al Jamaliyeh, witnesses told AP. A van driver was also killed when another missile struck nearby, AP reported. Israeli jets also pounded a Lebanese army position west of the city of Sidon, south of Beirut, killing one soldier and injuring several others, according to the Lebanese army. The strike happened in Iqlim Al Tufa. (Watch Lebanese racing to get out of range -- 1:51) While the Israeli army would not say how many of its forces are stationed in southern Lebanon, Israeli media are reporting around 6,000 Israeli soldiers are operating in the region as part of Israel's campaign to disarm the Hezbollah militia. Lebanese authorities Wednesday reported 603 civilians and soldiers have been killed and more than 2,100 wounded in the Israeli military campaign against Lebanon-based Hezbollah. Israel's military Wednesday reported 55 deaths -- including 19 civilians -- and 580 injuries during the conflict. Israel began its operation after Hezbollah militants crossed into northern Israel, kidnapped two soldiers and killed three others on July 12. In addition, Israeli attacks on the Lebanese infrastructure have caused $2 billion in damage, according to a spokesman for the Lebanese Ministry of Transportation and Public Works. The figure does not include financial losses in tourism and damage to buildings. Israeli towns hit Thirty-six Hezbollah rockets hit Wednesday inside the northern Israeli towns of Nahariya, Safed, Tiberias, Kiryat Shmona, Carmiel, Maalot as well as in upper Galilee, including some that struck homes. (Watch splintered remains of a house at the attack scene -- :40 ) Air raid sirens could be heard in Afula, Beit Shean and Nazareth. The Israeli navy also sounded sirens in Haifa's harbor. (Watch how Katyusha set northern Israel on fire -- 1:27) In addition, Hezbollah said it had fired more Khaybar-1 rockets on the Israeli town of Afula, 44 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of Haifa, according to The Associated Press. The militant group also struck that town with such a rocket Friday. (Full story) U.N. aid arrives Two United Nations convoys carrying humanitarian aid arrived in Lebanese port cities of Sidon and Tyre on Wednesday, said Robin Lodge, a U.N. World Food Program spokesman. Despite poor road conditions and a slow approval process, the United Nations has sent about 90 trucks of relief supplies into the nation since last Wednesday, Lodge said. On Tuesday, Khaled Mansour, the top U.N. spokesman in Lebanon, said the United Nations is working closely "with all the warring factions" to get aid into the region, but has not been able to get as much aid into the area as it had hoped.
Its not hard to imagine that terrorists would base up in a hospital; given that they normally strap bombs onto their kids and send them into martyrdom.
Yea lo0ol ... Let there media lie on them ... Like when they said they killed Sayed Hasan Nasrallah in a shelter by 23 tons and then they were surprised to see him on tv live ...
I just wished that our major media networks would stop supporting the terrorists postion. Have they forgotten 9/11 ?
State fed media? Must be true. "How do you fight against terrorists that use hospitals as quarters?" You get troops and tanks on the ground and worm them out the hard way. For every civilian you kill you create a handfull of fresh combatants. All I know for for sure is If I saw my kids blown up by any army/terrorist group I would take to the gun. Not a good idea just human nature. The taste of revenge may be sweet but it will leave a bitter after taste. "9/11" Is that going to be the excuse for every conflict in the middle east.
Amazing Israel They came to chase hizbollah and people getting healed. or killed by your hizbollah???
That's possible, but what sense does it make except to use it as a tricky manoevre. Their actions are disgusting!!!
Actually, getting sick people out of the prewarned danger zone isn't a "tricky maneuver" at all I have no idea if that was what happened, just that it is of course completely possible for a hospital in Lebanon to be empty
There is no army in the world than islamists like hizbollah and a few other islamist groups alike terrorists that would abuse civillian facilities for war. The most disturbing fact is the question what happened to patient that were in ICU's and/or conditions that would not allow to be transported at all. Now and after having so much proof of hizbollahs tactics I expect the worst.
he did it again today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the solution to the Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel, state-media reported He also urged Muslim states to "isolate" the United States and Britain for supporting Israel's military attacks against Lebanon. Ahmadinejad also rejected deploying international forces on the Israeli-Lebanese border. "Peace and security in Lebanon and its borders has to be preserved by the Lebanese government and people. Deployment of foreign forces is not acceptable in any shape unless it is just, based on U.N. rules and preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon," he said Source CNN I first thought that the emergency mmeting was is in Indonesia not in Malaysia. Maybe I understood wrong this morning. Anyway, since this guy and terroists is counting to much on Chinas support, playing the trade game and signed contracts worth 100 billion USD and think that will keep them out of sanctions and wr to continue with their wicked plans and ideas. This trade deal is for years and means nothing compared to the over one trillion a year China is doing so far. China will also remember the massacres of Chinese people and businesses in Indonesia a couple of years back. So go ahead everyone to stop this country fro what it is doing. They need a full stop
he talks too much ... at the end he will probably die from some poison or in a car crash and no one will ever know how and by whom