1.   Hezbollah fighters quickly foraged through the deserted posts, stocking up on Israeli rocket launchers, ammunition and gear before Israel had a chance to do anything about it.

2.   Hospital officials in Gaza said a Palestinian journalist wounded by Israeli rocket fire in Bethlehem nine days ago had died in a hospital in Jordan.

3.   Ibrahim Hassan was in his tobacco fields near his Tyre home when he heard the first Israeli rockets fall.

4.   In addition to the dead, at least seven people were injured when the Israeli rockets slammed into a building in a crowded neighborhood.

5.   In one, an Israeli rocket killed six Lebanese civilians riding in an ambulance.

6.   Monday, stunned and bewildered, he was clearing up after five Israeli rockets smashed into his home in the early hours, killing his two canaries.

7.   Others claimed it was an Israeli rocket.

8.   Party of God leaders remained nervously entrenched in their southern Beirut headquarters on Friday, with tense gunmen patrolling empty streets where Israeli rockets struck on Friday and Thursday.

9.   The administration was careful in wording its statement Monday not to declare the Israeli rocket attacks specifically as excessive, relying rather on cautionary diplomatic language.

10.   The air resonated with the rumble of Israeli rocket blasts, and a mile away the hillsides burned.