Israeli military officials report that Hezbollah has fired at least ten Katyusha rockets into Southern Lebanon itself. Since none crossed the border into Israel, the IDF did not respond. Hezbollah is rocketing its own civilian population that is streaming back into Southern Lebanon in hopes of starting hostilities back up.
Highlighting the fragility of the peace, Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets that landed in southern Lebanon early Tuesday, the Israeli army said, adding that nobody was injured. The army said that none of the rockets, which were fired over a two-hour period, had crossed the border and so it had not responded.
Lines of cars — some loaded with mattresses and luggage — snaked slowly around huge holes in the roads and ruined bridges. Many Lebanese expressed shock at finding houses and villages flattened in more than a month of Israeli air and artillery strikes.
Hezbollah fighters hugged each other and celebratory gunfire and fireworks erupted in Beirut as the Islamic militant group's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah claimed a "strategic, historic victory."
But Israeli Prime Ehud Olmert also claimed success, saying the offensive eliminated the "state within a state" run by Hezbollah group and restored Lebanon's sovereignty in the south.
In northern Israel, residents emerged from bomb shelters, hopeful that the barrage of nearly 4,000 Hezbollah rockets that had rained down on towns and villages since July 12 had ended — for now. Stores shuttered for weeks reopened and some people returned to the beaches in Haifa, which suffered most from guerrilla attacks.
These are heroes to the Arab world? Murderous thugs who would openly kill their own people in hopes of provoking a response? It is not enough that they hid like cowards behind their own, now they fire their ball bearing filled murder weapons at their own people.
These are heroes?
