71. Warplanes also hit a power substation in the eastern city of Baalbek on Thursday and four airstrikes targeted bridges on the main coastal road to southern Lebanon. 72. Warplanes hit a power substation in the eastern city of Baalbek and four airstrikes targeted bridges on the main coastal road to southern Lebanon. 73. Work crews have cleared the nearby coastal road, but the beach where fishermen once cast their lines is now covered with hard-packed, desolate earth. 74. In this context it appealed for free circulation on the coastal road south of Beirut, which was still being bombed by Israeli forces on Monday. 75. Israel also began intense shelling Monday further south on the coastal road between Sidon and Tyre. 76. Israeli helicopters fired missiles which hit cars on the coastal road near this southern city on Thursday, wounding several people, Lebanese police said. 77. A single Israeli jeep with two officers aboard attempted to drive out by the coastal road, but was turned back by the Palestinian blockade. 78. As the diplomatic efforts mounted, Israel conducted air raids against villages in south Lebanon Saturday, and its warships pounded a coastal road near Sidon, police said. 79. But Fijian and French peacekeepers traded gunfire with Israeli units and blocked the coastal road between the port city of Tyre and Naqura for two hours. 80. De Charette was travelling by helicopter to south Lebanon, as Israeli gunships shelled a coastal road south wounding three people and trapping hundreds of motorists. |