Israelis block Lebanese ports and step up attacks

ISRAEL intensified its attacks against Lebanon yesterday, imposing a naval blockade, twice hitting Beirut’s airport and blasting two Lebanese army air bases near Syria.

Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets into Israel, with one apparently striking the port city of Haifa.

The Shi’ite militant group denied it had rocketed Haifa, where no injuries were reported, though two days of violence elsewhere left at least 51 people dead on both sides of the border.