Lebanese women and children who escaped from villages struck by Israeli war planes sit in front of Rest Hotel Tyre in the southern Lebanese town of Tyre yesterday. - Reuters
ISRAELI AIRCRAFT knock out mobile phone and TV masts north of Beirut.
More than 40 rockets fired by Hezbollah hit towns across northern Israel, injuring more than two dozen people.
Fighting has now killed some 350 Lebanese, most of them civilians. Nineteen Israeli soldiers and 15 civilians have died.
Israel urges residents of 14 villages in southern Lebanon to leave by 4 p.m. (1300 GMT).
Israeli forces carry out limited incursions a few miles (km) inside southern Lebanon. Military source says no plan to launch major invasion for now.
Witnesses say Israeli warplanes bomb al-Khiam town near the border and sites near port of Tyre. U.N. border peace-keepers say Israeli forces still occupy Maroun al-Ras village but left Marwaheen.
Thousands of demonstrators march through London and hundreds gather in Amsterdam to protest against Israeli attacks and the refusal of the United States and Britain to condemn them.
Russia proposes urgent meeting of major power and regional foreign ministers in Beirut or Rome.
EU Commission calls on members to send medicines, shelter materials, fire-fighting equipment and other supplies to Lebanon.
France calls for immediate cessation of hostilities.
U.S. President George W. Bush, at his ranch in Texas, telephones Turkey's prime minister to discuss how to help the Lebanese people.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice goes to Middle East on Sunday, resists international pressure for immediate cease-fire.
Bush and Rice to "strategies" about a diplomatic solution with Saudi officials at the White House on Sunday.
Italy to host international conference on Wednesday on possible cease-fire and deployment of foreign troops on Lebanese border. Rice to attend, but not Iran, Syria, Israel.
Mass evacuation from Lebanon to Cyprus continues, five ships arrive with 4,550 evacuees in addition to 25,000 already evacuated. Hundreds of evacuees reach Turkish ports.
