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Villagers Carry Away Dead After Israeli Strike On Baalbek
Wednesday August 2nd, 2006 / 21h24



A relative mourns as the body of Awad Jamaleddine is removed by a bulldozer, after he was killed with several members of his family, during an overnight Israeli raid on the eastern town of Baalbek, a Hezbollah bastion 10 kilometres from the Syrian border. Israeli commandos struck deep into Lebanon and snatched five suspected guerrillas in a helicopter raid that provoked the heaviest rain of Hezbollah rocket fire in the 22-day-old conflict.(AFP/Joseph Barrak)

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BAALBEK, Lebanon (AP)--Villagers outside the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, Lebanon, used the bucket of a front-end loader to carry away the dead Wednesday, after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid killed 16.

Israel's deepest thrust yet into Lebanon drew new attention to this city with a notorious past, where guerrillas held Western hostages like former Beirut-based Associated Press Chief Middle East Correspondent Terry Anderson two decades ago.

Israel's commando raid on an Iranian-funded, Hezbollah-run hospital wasn't just a daring military strike deep in enemy territory. It was a blow at the symbol of guerrilla power in the heart of their Bekaa Valley bastion of eastern Lebanon.

Israel's military swooped in late Tuesday, dropping commandos from helicopters and wreaking havoc with airstrikes before withdrawing after taking prisoners. Israel said it captured five Hezbollah fighters and killed 10 guerrillas in the deepest assault into Lebanon in 12 years.
Sixteen civilians, including a family of seven, died in the heavy clashes and air raids, and a Hezbollah leader rumored to have been the target of the overnight operation spoke by phone to the guerrilla organization's television station later to prove he wasn't captured. Hezbollah didn't report its casualties.

Though Israel hasn't yet released the names of those captured, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: "They are tasty fishes."