Crisis In Lebanon

A toppled apartment building lies in the rubble next to other destroyed buildings after an Israeli air strike in the Hezbollah stronghold southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 28, 2006. Israeli warplanes also struck buildings in a village near the town of Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon in renewed attacks on suspected Hezbollah targets.

A Lebanese flag flies over the deserted beach of tourist resort in the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, July 28, 2006. As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced plans to return to the Middle East, Israeli warplanes pounded 130 targets in Lebanon, including a Hezbollah base in the Bekaa Valley where long-range rockets were stored, killing at least three people and wounding nine, officials said.

An Israeli soldier shouts at his comrades that he is about to fire artillery shells at an army position near the Lebanese border in northern Israel, Thursday, July 27, 2006. Hezbollah dealt Israel its heaviest losses in the Lebanon campaign Wednesday, killing nine soldiers in fierce firefights.

With a mosque's minaret as the backdrop, people gather at the rubble of a destroyed building minutes after an Israeli warplane missile attack in the center of the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday July 26, 2006. Hezbollah inflicted heavy casualties on Israeli troops as they battled for a key hilltop town for a fourth day, and four U.N. observers were killed by an Israeli air strike on their post Tuesday.

Israeli soldiers load missiles on a military vehicle as Israeli orthodox Jews dance, to show their support for the troops, along the Israeli-Lebanese border Wednesday July 26, 2006. Hezbollah fighters battled Wednesday to stop Israeli forces from capturing the town of Bint Jbail in the heaviest fighting of Israel's two-week offensive in Lebanon.

A displaced Lebanese boy sits in a room at a shelter in an old courthouse in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, after his family fled the fighting in southern Lebanon Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israeli troops sealed off a key Hezbollah stronghold in fierce fighting as Hezbollah rockets hit the Israeli city of Haifa. The two-week old crisis showed no signs of letting up, despite frantic diplomatic efforts.

Blood is seen in front of a bank where a rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Lebanese guerrillas fired more than a dozen rockets toward the Israeli port city on Tuesday, and Israeli media reported several people were injured.

Lebanese citizens carry some of their salvaged belongings as they walk through a destroyed street in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Monday, July 24, 2006. Israeli ground forces made another foray into Lebanon on Monday, fighting Hezbollah guerrillas around a major southern town, as the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined diplomatic attempts to stop Israeli bombardments and Hezbollah rocket attacks.

An injured Israeli soldier is seen after returning from southern Lebanon where the Israeli army took casualties during fighting near the Lebanese town of Bint Jbail, Monday, July 24, 2006. Heavy fighting erupted Monday as Israeli ground forces pushed into Lebanon, heading toward Bint Jbail, a Hezbollah stronghold, as rockets continued to fall on northern Israel.

Aziza Ousayran, 77, raises her hands in the air to God and asks how she will get out of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 21, 2006. After more than a week of sustained Israeli air strikes on the previously densely-populated Hezbollah-controlled area of the capital, few civilians remain. The woman was later offered a ride out of the area by western journalists.

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards southern Lebanon from the northern border of Israel, in the western Galilee, July 21, 2006.

Israeli soldiers cover their ears as an artillery unit fires shells towards southern Lebanon — AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari

A Lebanese girl peers from a window of her family's damaged house as she looks at the rubble of a bridge, unseen, after an Israeli warplane missile strike destroyed it, in the southern village of Saksakiyeh, south of the port town of Sidon, Lebanon, July 21, 2006.

Israeli soldiers cover their ears as an artillery unit fires shells towards southern Lebanon from a position near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, July 21, 2006.

A demolished flyover is covered in debris after being targeted by Israeli air strikes on Thursday, July 20, 2006 in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon.

A woman walks in the rubble of destroyed houses after they were targeted by Israeli warplane's missiles, in the southern village of Zebdine, close to the market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006.

A Lebanese man inspects the inside of a mosque, in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006, that was destroyed when Israeli warplanes targeted it late Wednesday. — AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil

A Lebanese man inspects the inside of a mosque in the Bourj al-Barajneh neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006, that was destroyed by Israeli warplanes.

A convoy of Israeli tanks prepares to enter southern Lebanon near the northern Israeli village of Avivim, Wednesday, July 19, 2006. — AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

A convoy of Israeli tanks prepares to enter southern Lebanon near the northern Israeli village of Avivim, July 19, 2006.

Lebanese woman reacts after she inspected her truck that was destroyed — AP Photo/Pierre Bou Karam

A Lebanese woman reacts after inspecting her truck which was destroyed when a convoy of trucks was targeted before dawn by Israeli warplanes, in Hadath, Lebanon, July 19, 2006.

An Israeli hospital worker cleans pieces of shattered glass after a rocket fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah guerrillas hit the northern Israeli town of Safed, July 18, 2006.

Lebanese pigeon fanciers release birds they found alive under the rubble of houses that were destroyed when Israeli airplanes targeted them, in the town of Choueifat, at the southern edge of Beirut, Lebanon, July 18, 2006.