Israeli warplanes bombed the Palestinian Foreign Ministry building in Gaza City early Monday, the second attack on the ministry in a week, witnesses said.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene saw clouds of smoke rising from the already damaged building after the strike by an Israeli warplane. (AP)
2,000 Israelis hold anti-war demo in Tel Aviv
Published: 7/16/2006
TEL AVIV - Around 2,000 people marched in Israel's commercial capital of Tel Aviv on Sunday to demand an end to the punishing offensive against Lebanon that has left some 150 dead, organisers said.
"Yes to a prisoner exchange," chanted the demonstrators, referring to the key demand of Lebanese Hezbollah militants who snatched two Israeli soliders in a cross-border raid Wednesday, unleashing the Israeli offensive.
"Yes to peace," "Our children want to live," cried the mixed crowd of Jewish and Arab demonstrators.
The rally, organised by half a dozen Israeli pacifist groups, lasted around two hours before being dispersed by police.
At least 45 Lebanese were killed in Israeli strikes Sunday as the Jewish state pressed on with the fifth day of a campaign that has left much of Lebanon's infrastructure in tatters and raised fears of all-out regional war.
A Hezbollah rocket attack killed eight people in the Mediterranean port of Haifa in the the deadliest cross-border rocket attack on Israel in decades, strengthening Israel's resolve to destroy the Shiite militant group.
In the strongest international message yet to both sides, the G8 group of top world nations demanded at a summit in Russia an end to Israeli military operations and attacks by militants on Israel.
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