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On 13 July 2006, Israel reportedly continued its air attacks on the Gaza Strip with a powerful missile strike on the Palestinian foreign ministry in Gaza City, wounding 10 people and causing heavy damage to the recently renovated five-story building, the neighboring finance ministry and 15 other nearby houses. The strike comes a day after other Israeli operations killed 23 Palestinians, making it the deadliest day since the assault began two weeks ago. A total of 75 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched a massive air and ground offensive on Gaza in a bid to release a teenage soldier captured by militants on 25 June and end rocket attacks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has slammed the deadly and ongoing air strikes as "total aggression" and called on the international community and the Middle East quartet to intervene immediately to ease the crisis. Meanwhile, the armed wing of the governing Palestinian movement Hamas, which claimed joint responsibility for the capture of the soldier, has vowed a "strong and painful" response for the increasing death toll. Aid groups, on the other hand, have expressed concern about the difficulty of providing assistance to 1.4 million people living in the impoverished Gaza Strip following months of financial crisis and the suspension of direct Western aid to the Hamas-led government.
On 13 July 2006, Israel reportedly launched an air, sea and land blockade on Lebanon. The Israel Defense Force bombed the runways of Beirut's International Airport, forcing the closure of the facility and the diversion of flights to other airports in the Middle East. Israel also sent warships into Lebanese waters to restrict access to the Lebanese ports of Saida, Tyre, Beirut and Tripoli. Israeli army radio announced that Israel is imposing the blockade until further orders as part of operations to retrieve its two soldiers captured by Hizballah on 12 July. Meanwhile, Israeli fighter-bombers struck a Shiite Muslim mosque in a village in the eastern Bekaa valley of Lebanon, as Hizballah guerillas fired 60 more Katyusha rockets at Nahariya in northern Israel, killing at least one person, while another rocket hit the town of Safed, wounding seven people. Israel has also warned that if the Hizballah attacks continue, there will be raids in Beirut's southern neighborhoods, which house many families of Hizballah leaders, including its chief, Hassan Nasrallah. The death toll from the air strikes in Lebanon is now estimated at more than 47 civilians in addition to at least 100 people who were wounded.I know this is a complicated situation, with a lot of "Well, he started it" going around. But this is how I feel about it so far:
Kids, if you do not learn to behave, I am turning this car around, goddamnit!
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