[TexKat]

Patriot Missile Batteries Deployed in Haifa

21:10 Jul 15, '06 / 19 Tammuz 5766

(IsraelNN.com) Three Patriot anti-ballistic missile batteries have been placed in Haifa over the Sabbath after Hizbullah fired rockets into the port city last week.

The military confirmed the placement of the Patriots in Haifa, adding it is the first time the anti-ballistic missile system is being deployed in Israel in a number of years.

Haifa has special strategic significance, being home to a major seaport, as well as primary Israel Electric Company power station, and oil refineries.

[TexKat]

Lebanese citizens walk through the rubble of a damaged house, suspected to be a Hizbullah guerilla position, after it was hit by IAF airstrikes on the village of Debbine in southern Lebanon.

A Lebanese youth flashes V signs next to a bridge damaged by Israeli warplanes in southern Lebanon.

A Lebanese soldier stands on alert behind an anti-aircraft gun in southern Lebanon.

Lebanese youths in the suburbs of Beirut wave Hizbullah flags as they celebrate the Hizbullah attack on the Israeli border.

An IDF artillery unit fires into southern Lebanon from northern Israel.

IAF pilots in the cockpit, as they are about to take off for a mission in Lebanon.

People stand on the rubble of a damaged Lebanese bridge that was destroyed after the IAF targeted it.