Israel unleashed airstrikes across Lebanon on Friday, August 4,
including parts of Beirut's suburbs, above.
A wave of rockets fired by Hezbollah today hit the town of
Kiryat Shmona, near the Israeli border with Lebanon.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis marched against U.S. and Israel in
Baghdad today. The protesters filled 20 blocks of a wide
boulevard and dozens of side streets in the Shiite-dominated
Sadr City section of the capital.
In Gaza City, a house was badly damaged by an Israeli strike.
At the steep gorge in Halat, Lebanon, cut by the Fidar River,
which runs down the mountains to the Mediterranean, dozens
of Maronite Catholic residents gathered to stare in stunned
silence at a 200-yard stretch of four-lane highway blasted into
rubble by Israeli strikes.
The supports for the bridges at Halat rose like cliffs at either end.
A wounded civilian being carried away on a stretcher at
Maameltain bridge in Lebanon.
In the Bekaa Valley, hard against the Syrian border, an airstrike
killed at least 28 seasonal farm workers loading fruit and
vegetables into a refrigerated truck.
Israeli paramedics evacuated the victim of a Hezbollah rocket
attack in Shear Yeshuv.
In Kiryat Shmona, Israel, residents waited in a shelter.
At the funeral for Israeli Sgt. Yonatan Sharabi, 19, a father's agony.
Relatives of Joseph Bassil mourned him at the destroyed
bridge of Halat, Lebanon.