THE TENSION: Images: Middle East Conflict, Sat. 15 July (2)

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Images: Middle East Conflict, Sat. 15 July (2)

VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH OR INJURY A United Nations medic holds a body that was badly charred and destroyed after an Israeli missile hit a van carrying passengers on a road in southern Lebanon, July 15, 2006. Israeli aircraft pounded areas in south, east and northern Lebanon on Saturday, a day after Hizbollah's chief declared an open war against the Jewish state following the bombardment of his stronghold in Beirut.

Damur bridge lies in ruins, 18km south of Beirut. Israel intensified its relentless bombardment of Lebanon, destroying the Beirut headquarters of the Hezbollah leader and pounding the country's ports as fears mounted the conflict could spiral into regional war

Israelis are seen in a bomb shelter in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, Saturday, July 15, 2006.

VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH OR INJURY A badly charred and mutilated body lies on the ground after an Israeli missile hit a van carrying passengers on a road in southern Lebanon, July 15, 2006.

VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH OR INJURY Badly charred and destroyed bodies are laid on the ground after an Israeli missile hit a van carrying passengers on a road in southern Lebanon, July 15, 2006.

U.N. peacekeepers react at the sight of citizens who were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted their vehicles, on the main road near the southern border village of Ter Harfa, Lebanon, Saturday, July 15, 2006.

Iranian student protestors burn a representation of an Israeli flag during a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 15, 2006.

Iraqi women living in Syria carry portraits of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during a protest against Israeli raids on Lebanon at al-Sayadah Zaineb, near Damascus, July 15, 2006.

An Israeli soldier helps a woman in shock to leave the area after a Hezbollah-fired rocket directly hit a house in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, Saturday July 15, 2006.

An Israeli artillery piece fires into southern Lebanon from a position on the border near Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel , Saturday, July 15, 2006.

An Israeli airstrike hits the center of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, July 15, 2006 as Israeli warplanes repeatedly blasted the residential area which is a Hezbollah stronghold throughout the day.

Members of the Palestinian group Fath Uprising look from an anti-aircraft gun in Biddawi camp, north of Lebanon, July 15, 2006.

Smoke drifts across Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, July 15, 2006 following a nighttime Israeli airstrike on the Hezbollah stronghold in the densely-populated southern suburbs.

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