Night video and day shots of Israeli troops in SLebanon, NIsrael

Описание: (27 Jul 2006)

++NIGHT SHOTS++
Southern Lebanon
1. Wide of Israeli soldiers standing on army vehicles, soldier eating
2. Soldier preparing equipment
3. Close up of soldier holding machine gun
4. Soldier standing on army vehicles looking through binoculars
5. Close up of soldier talking on army radio
6. Bulldozer driving
7. Close up of Israeli soldier
8. Soldier standing in night vision equipment
9. Soldiers hugging each other

++DAY SHOTS++
Northern Israel, border with Lebanon
10. Israeli tank driving out of field into road where more army vehicles are in line
11. Israeli soldier sitting on tank as it drives on border
12. Israeli tanks driving on empty road
13. Soldiers sitting on armoured vehicle as it drives on border

STORYLINE

Israeli forces on Thursday continued their offensive in southern Lebanon, an operation Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said is aimed at establishing a two-kilometre (1.2-mile) wide zone in south Lebanon that will be free of Hezbollah guerrillas - ruling out a larger occupation.

After nine soldiers were killed in a single day of fighting against Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, the Israeli government is coming under growing criticism at home.

Along with the nine dead, 22 soldiers were wounded in bloody battles in the south Lebanon stronghold of Bint Jbail on Wednesday alone _ while the army has been unable to stop the rocket barrages on northern Israel that have killed 18 civilians in 15 days.

An Israeli airstrike that killed four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and plans for a new 2-kilometer buffer zone have also rekindled fears of a return
to Israel's messy 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, which ended in 2000 after the Israeli public grew exhausted with the mounting death toll there.

After Hezbollah guerrillas crossed the border July 12th, killing three soldiers and capturing two others, there was near wall-to-wall political
support for the government's decision to launch a large-scale offensive to crush the militant group.

But that consensus is beginning to crack, and critics are starting to say the government launched the offensive hastily, with no exit strategy, and many fearing the country is again being dragged into yet another quagmire across its northern border with seemingly no historical lessons learned.

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