Israeli police said at least three rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon today and rescue services reported at least one person wounded.

THOUSANDS of mourners turned out for the burials of two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas, laying to rest the young men whose unknown fate had riveted the Jewish state for two years.

Thousands attended the burials today of the two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanese guerrillas.

Thousands have gathered for the first funeral of two Israeli soldiers returned in a prisoner exchange with Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas.

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross ducked into a bomb shelter as air raid sirens wailed over northern Israel today, and said he was distressed at civilian suffering from the war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

LEBANON I miss you. I miss your children’s beautiful, innocent, smiling faces as they dive from the Corniche in Beirut into the sparkling Mediterranean beneath.

Israel launched its deepest ground strike into Lebanon today, claiming it had killed 10 Hezbollah guerrillas and captured five in the northeastern city of Baalbek, while nearby air strikes killed at least 15 civilians.

Up to 50 people were killed today – more than half of them children – when Israeli missiles struck a southern Lebanese village early today, flattening houses on top of sleeping residents.

Israeli planes and artillery attacks today hit Hezbollah positions and crushed houses and roads in southern Lebanon, killing up to 12 people.

The father of an Israeli soldier snatched by Lebanese guerrillas today appealed to the captors to make their demands known so he can at least be assured his son is alive.

Lebanese guerrillas fired a relentless barrage of rockets into the northern Israeli city of Haifa today, killing nine people and wounding dozens of others, police in Israel said.

Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Lebanon early today, targeting bridges and fuel storage tanks and petrol stations in the east and south, security officials said.

Israeli warplanes struck the runways of Lebanon’s only international airport in Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs early today, forcing the airport to shut down.

A FOREIGN submarine sneaked into Israeli waters last week and escaped without being identified, a military spokeswoman said today.

A foreign submarine sneaked into Israeli waters last week and escaped without being identified, a military spokeswoman said today.

Hezbollah’s leader today pledged to bring home all prisoners held by Israel and said he expected to hear from a German mediator in the next three days on the proposed swap of prisoners and bodies with the Jewish state.

LEBANON yesterday protested to the UN Security Council over Israeli violations of its sovereignty and the “aggression and threats” of its southern neighbour, the foreign ministry said.

Israeli warplanes attacked suspected guerrilla positions in southern Lebanon today, hours after Hezbollah militants shelled an Israeli town, killing a 16-year-old boy and lightly injuring five others, including a baby.

Israeli troops and tanks have surrounded the West Bank town of Jenin in retaliation for a suicide bombing by an Israeli-Arab that killed three civilians in the northern town of Nahariya at the weekend.

The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian policeman and injured four others in a missile attack on a police checkpoint in the West Bank village of Tamun.

Four people were killed today and 30 others were wounded when a suicide bomber donated explosives as passengers disembarked from a train in the northern Israeli coastal town of Nahariya.

Three Israelis have been killed and seven injured when a bomb exploded at the station in the northern Israeli coastal resort of Nahariya.