ISRAEL KILLED AT LEAST 34 CIVILIANS ON SATURDAY, INCLUDING 15 CHILDREN, IN AIR STRIKES MEANT TO PUNISH LEBANON FOR LETTING HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS MENACE ISRAELI NORTHERN BORDER, REUTERS REPORTED. ISRAEL'S BOMBING OF LEBANESE ROADS, BRIDGES, PORTS AND AIRPORTS, AS WELL AS HIZBOLLAH TARGETS, IS ITS MOST DESTRUCTIVE ONSLAUGHT SINCE A 1982 INVASION TO EXPEL PALESTINIAN FORCES. FOR THE FIRST TIME, PORTS IN CHRISTIAN AREAS WERE BOMBARDED AND A HELICOPTER MISSILE HIT A LIGHTHOUSE ON BEIRUT'S SEAFRONT. AN ISRAELI MISSILE INCINERATED A VAN IN SOUTHERN LEBANON, KILLING 20 PEOPLE, AMONG THEM 15 CHILDREN, IN THE DEADLIEST SINGLE ATTACK OF THE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED BY ISRAEL AFTER HIZBOLLAH CAPTURED TWO OF ITS SOLDIERS AND KILLED EIGHT ON WEDNESDAY. OTHER RAIDS ON NORTH, EAST AND SOUTH LEBANON KILLED 14 PEOPLE AND WOUNDED 37, SECURITY SOURCES SAID. AT LEAST 103 PEOPLE, ALL BUT FOUR OF THEM CIVILIANS, HAVE BEEN KILLED IN ISRAEL'S FOUR-DAY-OLD ASSAULT, WHICH HAS CHOKED LEBANON'S ECONOMY AND PROMPTED TOURISTS AND FOREIGNERS TO FLEE. HIZBOLLAH ROCKETS STRUCK DEEPER INTO ISRAEL THAN EVER, WOUNDING EIGHT PEOPLE IN THE SEA OF GALILEE TOWN OF TIBERIAS. ALTOGETHER 10 ISRAELIS WERE WOUNDED AS ABOUT 80 ROCKETS RAINED DOWN FROM LEBANON. ISRAEL HAS DEPLOYED PATRIOT MISSILE BATTERIES IN THE NORTHERN CITY OF HAIFA TO INTERCEPT ROCKETS.
