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Israel resumes bombing

Israeli jets have attacked a power station south of Beirut as their bombing campaign in Lebanon extended into a fifth day.

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  • Published: 23:33 May 3, 2009
  • Gulf News

Beirut: Israeli jets have attacked a power station to the south of Beirut as their bombing campaign in Lebanon extended into a fifth day.

Overnight air strikes were also carried out in Beirut's southern suburbs, although Hezbollah has denied claims on Israeli television that its leader Shaikh Hassan Nasrallah was injured in the raids.

Eight people have been killed after a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Haifa. Around 14 others were injured according to local police.

Hezbollah fired at least five rockets towards the city on Sunday morning, with one of them hitting a train station.
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Hezbollah's Al Manar television went off the air in the early hours of Sunday morning, but it was broadcasting again within minutes.

Israeli jets also attacked the Jiyeh power plant, with firefighters complaining that they didn't have enough water to tackle the blaze.

In the eastern city of Baalbek, Israeli warplanes destroyed a house in the Al Lakkis neighborhood.

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Hezbollah says it repelled an attempt by Israeli troops to cross the border in southern Lebanon, destroying an Israeli military bulldozer in the process.

As many as 100 Lebanese people, most of them civilians,?are thought to have been killed in the five days since Israeli launched its onslaught on the country.

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