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Th Jul 13 -

LEBANESE COLLAGE -

Once again today, Sandmonkey has been blogging the Lebanese situation and doing a great job. The Lebanese Bloggers were posting again today with news, but Raja had to leave his perch for a safer (undisclosed) location and will be offline until his new node can be secured. His associates have picked up the baton. Jamal, who's in Beirut, gave us a screen shot of the leaflets dropped by the Israelis; the gist of it is translated on the comment thread. The leaflets were dropped on a southern Beirut neighbourhood where the Israeli Army believes Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah lives, Israeli media reported on Thursday...

The famous Arab Diva and Chanteuse FAIROUZ was scheduled for BAALBECK. This festival and others will probably be postponed. Thousands of tourists, mostly Gulf Arab nationals, fled Lebanon to Syria after the Beirut airport had to be shut down. [Naharnet]

Two rockets slammed into the northern port city of Haifa on Thursday evening. The rockets hit the Stella Maris area on Mt. Carmel, Israel TV reported. There were no reported casualties. Hizbullah denied firing the rockets... Four rockets hit Safed Thursday evening. [Albawaba]

ELAPH's headline story started out with the notion that the U.S. is urging Israel to exercise restraint. Another article there (via Google-Translate) seemed to suggest that Saudi Arabia criticized Hizbullah's behavior as irresponsible adventure rather than legitimate resistance.

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