Fierce fighing continues in southern Lebanon
Updated on 04 August 2006
Three Israeli soldiers reportedly killed near the village of Markaba with further clashes around Ait Al-Shaab and Naquora.
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Hizbollah forces apparently co-ordinated their rocket attacks: at least dozens raining down on the Israeli villages of Kiryat Shmona], Safed and Kfar Horpash in half an hour.
Israeli jets also bombed the village of Qaa near the Syrian border - officials there claimed at least 33 people died.
And for the first time jets also struck predominantly Christian areas north of Beirut - destroying four bridges near Jounieh cutting the coastal highway to Syria and forcing the UN to cancel relief convoys.
Beirut has suffered another heavy bombardment: Israeli warships shelling the southern suburbs of Haret Hreik and Roweiss as air strikes targeted the coastal suburb of Ouzai.
