After four weeks of fighting, nearly 800 people have died on both sides.
Rescuers in Lebanon pulled 28 additional corpses from the wreckage of Monday's attacks, raising that day's toll to 77 Lebanese -- the deadliest single day of the war. Early today , Lebanese and Palestinian officials said Israeli gunboats shelled a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, causing a number of casualties.
In Tyre, part of the south Lebanon region where Israel declared the no-drive zone, only pedestrians ventured into the streets.
Country roads and highways were deserted throughout the region because of the Israeli threat. Although Israel said it would not attack humanitarian convoys, the UN was not taking any chances.
At least 160 Hezbollah rockets hit northern Israel, most of them in and around the towns of Nahariya, Kiryat Shemona, Maalot, Safed. No Israeli civilians were killed.
Some of the fiercest ground fighting raged around the village of Bint Jbail, a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel has tried to capture for weeks. Three Israeli soldiers were killed there yesterday, the military said, claiming 35 Hezbollah guerrillas died in the fighting.
Hezbollah would not confirm any deaths.
Early today, an Israeli airstrike killed one person and wounded six others in the Palestinian refugee camp Ain el-Hilweh in Lebanon, security and hospital sources said.
According to Reuters, they said the airstrike targeted a position of the Palestinian armed Fatah movement, near the southern city of Sidon.
The issue of who will patrol southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah militants have been operating in their fight against Israel, has become the dominant sticking point in cease-fire negotiations at the United Nations.
Israeli ground troops currently are in the area, and Lebanon and other Arab nations are insisting they must leave when a cease-fire agreement is reached. President Bush says he wants an international force to replace the Israeli soldiers, but that could take weeks.
