Israeli warplanes dropped 23 tons of bombs on a bunker in south Beirut where the army believed senior Hezbollah leaders were hiding, a senior army official said today, but the guerrilla group denied the site was a bunker or that its leadership had been hurt.

ISRAEL’S top security chiefs are looking to tighten the already shortened Gaza Strip evacuation timetable, defence and government officials said yesterday.

Israel’s top security chiefs are looking to tighten the already shortened Gaza Strip evacuation timetable, defence and government officials said today.

Israeli troops pushed deep into the largest Palestinian refugee camp today - a first in four years of fighting – after a Palestinian rocket killed two toddlers in a border town.