Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon, warns 'nothing is safe';

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Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon, warns 'nothing is safe'; dozens dead

BEIRUT (CP) - Israel unleashed a furious military campaign on Lebanon's main airport, highways, military bases and other targets Thursday, retaliating for scores of Hezbollah guerrilla rockets that rained down on Israel and reached as far as Haifa, its third-largest city, for the first time.

The death toll in two days of fighting rose to 57 people with the sudden burst of violence sending shock waves through a region already traumatized by Iraq and continuing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. It shattered the relative calm in Lebanon that followed Israel's pullout from its occupied zone in South Lebanon in 2000 and the withdrawal of Syrian forces last year.

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