Monday, July 17, 2006

Miri Regev IDF Spokeswoman Briefs IDF Radio on Today's Operations

8:23 pm Israel time: IDF announces that all soldiers and border patrol personnel are accounted for, the claim that the Al Aksa Brigades kidnapped a border policeman is not true.

5:45 pm Israel time: Miri Regev spoke on IDF radio and gave a report on today's operations. The IAF destroyed ammunition depots and 13 bridges throughout Lebanon. They hit five trucks filled with rockets - one of which caught fire and flew into to air - this was the object that Al-Jazeera and Al Manar television claimed was an IDF plane. The IDF is also in the process of clearing out a section of south Lebanon which will turn into a "no man's land". They are flattening it completely so that there will be no place for the terrorists to take cover. This is in addition to striking Balbek, a village in the eastern border of Lebanon where Hizballah has offices.

5:07 pm Israel time: Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claim they kidnapped border policeman in West Bank, IDF is checking this claim.

2:43 pm Israel time: The Arabs are claiming that an Israeli plane has been hit and is burning. The IDF claims that this is not true, and that the pictures shown on Al-Jazeera are false. More katyushas fell in Haifa, Migdal HaEmek and Natzrat Ilit. A building in Haifa badly damaged, injuries are reported.

1:46 pm Israel time: Katyushas fall in Tzfat, one injury reported. Others fall in the beach area of Haifa. Sirens go off in Nahariya warning of attack.

Editorial Update: Every hour the Pikud HaOref - Home Front Command - has instructions on what to do based on location. This is available on tv on channel 33. The phone number for the Pikud HaOref is 1207. Some radio stations have instructions after the news broadcast every hour.

1:06 pm Israel time: More katyushas have fallen in the Galil (Carmiel) and a few houses were hit directly. So far no injuries reported.

1 Comments:

Blogger Aaron78 said...

Hi,
I am writing from The Sun newspaper in the UK.
We are contacting bloggers in Beirut, Haifa and elsewhere in the Middle East in an attempt to find people who may be willing to give us a contemporaneous account of what is happening where they are.
Please contact me on this email address
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4:31 PM, July 17, 2006  

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