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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Hezbollah TV reports that the building housing the headquarters of the guerrilla group has been destroyed in an Israeli airstrike.

Israel’s rage is unleashed

The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated into a bloody slugfest yesterday that left dozens dead and threatened to erupt into a regional war.

Israel, determined to have two kidnapped soldiers returned, used planes, helicopters, tanks and warships to blockade Lebanon and bomb more than 100 sites.

The Israeli offensive put Beirut International Airport out of commission, cut the road to Damascus, shattered bridges throughout the country and targeted Hezbollah weapons depots.

Hezbollah in return fired more than 100 rockets into Israeli towns and introduced a longer range rocket with a more powerful warhead that can threaten Israeli cities more than 40 miles from the Lebanese border.

For the first time, the city of Haifa, 30 miles from Lebanon, was hit by rockets. It was Hezbollah’s deepest penetration into Israel and what Israeli Ambassador to the United States Daniel Ayalon called “a major, major escalation.”

“Those who fire into such a densely populated area will pay a heavy price,” said David Baker, an official in the Israeli prime minister’s office.

Here’s hoping that Israel ignores the EU and the UN and brings an end to the circle of terror that’s surrounded them for the past four decades.

Israellycool is liveblogging the war.

Meryl Yourish in response to a crazed leftist imagines life without Israel.

I’m very disappointed in the Pope.

Pamela at Atlas Shrugs has John Bolton’s address to the UN.