Israel hit south Beirut with 20 missiles prior to ceasefire
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/14/2006

Even after the passage of a UN resolution to cease fire, Israel did not miss the opportunity to stop its attacks on Lebanon with the Israeli jets firing at least 20 missiles on south Beirut, capital of Lebanon on Sunday destroying a complex of eight residential buildings and at least six families were thought to have been in them at the time of the attack.

Fires were burning and rescuers were arriving to check for survivors, although the scope of the damage.
Earlier, Israeli jets fired missiles into several petrol stations in the southern port city of Tyre and killed at least 12 people in those and other attacks as Israeli jets raged across the skies above Lebanon from north to south after the UN resolution calling for a truce.
Israeli planes attacked villages near Nabatiyeh north of the Litani River nonstop Sunday, killing one man.
Huge fires could be seen near the al-Bass Palestinian refugee camp north of Tyre and near the Najem hospital in the city after the filling stations were hit.
Attacks near Lebanese army bases in the east of Tyre killed at least four people, including two soldiers.
Earlier, at least five people died, a woman, her three children and a housemaid in a strike that destroyed a building at Bourj el-Chemali, one mile east of the city.
Jets returned to the village about noon and destroyed two more houses near the Lebanese army post on the road leading to Bourj el-Chemali.
In the Bekaa Valley, security officials reported two people killed and four wounded in an air strike on Shaath.
Warplanes also destroyed a bridge near the northern town of Halba in the remote Akkar region bordering Syria, wounding two people.
Jets raided the area of Ali Nahri in the eastern Bekaa Valley near the border with Syria.
Meanwhile, an Israeli air raid on a village in south Lebanon on Sunday destroyed a house and 15 civilian casualties were feared, Lebanese officials said.
"The house in the village of Tiri, eight km (five miles) from the border, had been sheltering families."

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