'10 Buildings For Every Rocket'
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Courtesy Of: Al-Jazeera
Monday 24 July 2006

The Israeli air force has been ordered to hit 10 buildings in South Beirut--where Hezbollah has its headquarters--For every rocket the group fires at the Israeli port of Haifa.

"Army Chief of Staff Dan Halutz has given the order to the Air Force to destroy 10 multi-storey buildings in the Dahya district (of Beirut) in response to every rocket fired on Haifa," a senior Air Force officer told Army Radio on Monday.

...More than 2,200 Hezbollah rockets had hit Northern Israel by Sunday. They have struck as far as Afula, 50km South of the border.

Large areas of predominantly Shia Muslim Southern Beirut have been destroyed by Israeli raids.

On Wednesday Israeli aircraft dropped 23 tons of explosives on the site of an alleged Hezbollah bunker in the South of the capital.

Jan Egeland, the United Nations Humanitarian Co-Ordinator on Sunday accused Israel of violating humanitarian law as he toured the destroyed suburbs of South Beirut.

"This is destruction of block after block of mainly residential areas. I would say it seems to be an excessive use of force in an area with so many citizens," he said.


Source:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/285B14DF-5EE4-4733-ACB4-F2EE55F3E0BA.htm