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[snip] Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have fled the missiles raining down on northern Israel, but it's the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who have fled the Israeli bombers searching for those missile launchers who we see on our screens. Hizballah bombs fall indiscriminately on civilian targets in Israel, packed with ball-bearings to cause as much injury to people as possible; but it's the collateral damage to civilians in Lebanon resulting from Hizballah's use of civilian shields for its artillery that we see on the news. Israelis are stoical, that's not a story; the Lebanese cry and show off their...

JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes dropped bombs late Wednesday on a bunker in south Beirut where senior Hezbollah leaders were thought to be, the military said. Military officials said a wave of aircraft dropped 23 tons of explosives on the bunker. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters, said top Hezbollah figures were thought to be there, possibly including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The officials said the bunker was in the Bourj al-Barajneh section of southern Beirut. The military said the attack occurred about 11 p.m., but reporters in Beirut said the...