Two dead, 43 wounded by Katyusha fire in Israeli towns overnight.
Israel bombed Beirut airport and other sites in southern Lebanon, and is enforcing a naval blockade on Lebanon.
The strikes on the airport, which damaged three runways, came hours before Israel also imposed a naval blockade on Lebanon to cut off supply routes to Lebanese militants.
Israel told Hezbullah she will bomb their offices in Beirut if the katyushas don’t stop.
Meanwhile, Israel threatened Thursday to strike at Hezbollah offices in a residential area of Beirut in response to Katyusha strikes on population centers inside Israel.
In response, Hezbollah said that it would target the major northern port city of Haifa.
The war is going to escalate in the next 24 hours.
President Bush urges restraint.
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Thursday that Israel had a right to defend itself against terrorist acts but it should not weaken the Beirut government.
“Israel has the right to defend herself,” Bush told a news conference after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“Secondly, whatever Israel does should not weaken the…government in Lebanon.”
Fox News correspondents in Gaza City are being fired on as I’m watching. They’re leaving. Wisely done.
Bush doesn’t want the Lebanese gov’t to fall? The great government that can’t even control militias in its own country. The government that Hezbollah has 3 minister portfolios. The gov’t that Hezbollah as 20% of parliament. Give me a break.