Strikes around Tyre villages, dead, coffins

Описание: (21 Jul 2006)
1. Various shots of Yater village in Tyre being bombed
2. Various of villagers of Zibqen (near tyre) looking at the sky
3. Leaflets being dropped
4. Various of people reading leaflet distributed by Israeli army
5. Girl reading; UPSOUND: (Arabic) "Due to the terrorist acts against the state of Israel, which is emanating from within your villages and homes, the Israeli Defence Forces are obliged to respond immediately. For you safety, withdraw behind the Litani river."
6. Various people tearing up leaflet
7. Local resident arriving on scooter holding leaflet
8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Lebanese local resident:
"This is just bluff. Our resistance is determined, we will not surrender to the psychological warfare."
9. Various of coffins being loaded and unloaded in Tyre government hospital (bodies from all over southern Lebanon)
10. Relatives holding tissue over their mouth and screaming
11. Wide of scene
12. Bodies carried out of refrigerated truck into coffin
13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Adib Waizani, Doctor:
"Up to now there are 105 dead and we have 374 injured. After we remove the bodies from the freezer truck, we're going to put them in temporary graves. And we still have to go back and remove dead bodies under destroyed homes, and remove them from destroyed vehicles on the roads, and that's what we have to do, we have to bring back all these dead bodies back to the fridge."
14. Various of people carrying coffins
STORYLINE:
Airstrikes pounded villages in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre on Friday, as the Israeli army warned residents to evacuate immediately, causing speculation that an invasion was imminent.
A girl read aloud one of the leaflets that were dropped over the area: "Due to the terrorist acts against the state of Israel, which is emanating from within your villages and homes, the Israeli Defence Forces are obliged to respond immediately," she read.
"For you safety, withdraw behind the Litani river," the leaflet instructed.
Villagers reacted with defiance: "Our resistance is determined, we will not surrender to the psychological warfare," said one villager, as others tore the leaflets up.
The Israeli army said on Friday that it has called up more reserve troops to augment its current forces in northern Israel, widening speculation
that a major ground offensive against Lebanon has moved beyond the planning stage.
The exact numbers of troops was not disclosed, but a military source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the
information, said the numbers of people would likely be slightly less than brigade-strength.
The size of a brigade varies from army to army, but typically ranges from 1,500 to 3,500 troops.
Israel has said it won't stop its offensive until Hezbollah is forced behind the Litani River, 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the border - creating a new buffer zone in a region that saw 18 years of Israeli presence since 1982.
The U.N. mission has nearly 2,000 peacekeepers and more than 300 civilians in southern Lebanon but the force has proven ineffective in policing the so-call Blue Line separating Israel and Lebanon in the six years since Israel pulled its troops out of the zone.
Meanwhile bodies of those killed in the airstrikes were taken from refrigerated trucks to be placed in temporary graves.
A doctor at Tyre hospital the raids had killed 105 people and injured 374.
The violence began on 12 July 2006 when fighters of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah, a group allied with Iran and Syria, captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.

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