All Lebanese Radar Stations Destroyed
The IDF has destroyed every Lebanese radar station and attacked Beirut proper. I'd say this is likely linked to the attack yesterday on shipping using radar guided drones. With everything else off the air, it will be easier to pick up the guidance systems of the drones.
The IDF destroyed all the radar stations along the Lebanese coast on Saturday, the IDF said in a press conference on Saturday evening.
The IAF attacked Beirut on Saturday evening for the first time in the four-day-old offensive, striking a lighthouse and the Beirut seaport
A helicopter gunship flew into the Lebanese capital from over the Mediterranean and fired a missile at the lighthouse, located at the tip of the city in the Ras Beirut district, witnesses said.
The top glass section of the lighthouse was shattered, but the building, erected two years ago to replace an older one nearby, remained standing.
Witnesses also said the Beirut seaport, the country's main commercial port facility, was also hit, as was the nearby seaport of Jounieh, which houses a Lebanese army base.
A short while earlier, the IAF fired missiles into the seaport of Lebanon's northernmost city of Tripoli in the deepest attack into Lebanese territory since fighting began four days ago.
Witnesses said helicopter gunships and gunboats fired four missiles into the port area, hitting grain silos.
Several explosions were heard in Tripoli, the country's second-largest city, about 100 kilometers north of Beirut. The port there is also the country's second-largest, after Beirut.
IAF planes repeatedly blasted Beirut's southern suburbs early Saturday evening, causing a series of huge blasts, Hizbullah's Al Manar television reported.
Israel hit grain silos? Want to bet there was something else to those silos besides grain?
By Bird Dog, Saturday, 15 July , 2006 @ 5:53 pm
Israel is doing a beautiful, surgical job with Lebanon. I hope the population will understand why, because it isn’t their fault.
By Gaius, Saturday, 15 July , 2006 @ 6:04 pm
Unlike the terrorists, they try hard to avoid unnecessary civilian death and hardship. There are a lot of Lebanese right now who are egging Israel on to finish off Hezbollah.
By Purple Avenger, Saturday, 15 July , 2006 @ 8:19 pm
I hope the population will understand why
A lot of the Lebanese bloggers seem to understand the Hizb are a cancer that needs to be excised for Lebanon to progress.
Some seem to be encouraging Israel to take out Syria and Iran too. Its no secret who has inflicted the Hizb on Lebanon.
By Gaius, Saturday, 15 July , 2006 @ 8:22 pm
Oh, they are proxies and everyone knows it.