Photo Gallery The War Intensifies
As the war in the Middle East entered its 24th day, Beirut was pounded in the early morning by as many as two dozen Israeli air strikes.
A highway and three traffic bridges north of Beirut were hit on Friday morning during rush hour. A number of civilians were wounded and at least six were killed.
A volunteer builds coffins in the port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.
The town of Tyre is virtually deserted, although this vegetable seller continues to try to make a go of it. The town has been heavily bombarded by Israeli forces.
A number of Lebanese -- like this girl -- have found shelter in schools in Beirut after having lost their homes to the bombardment.
A didsplaced Lebanese girl lines up for blankets at a temporary shelter in the port city of Tyrus.
A number of Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon. Here, mourners bury Michael Levin, a 21-year-old native of Philadelphia. He died in fighting on Tuesday.
Hezbollah fired dozens of missiles into Israel on Thursday killing eight civilians. Here, the injured are tended to in the northern Israeli town of Akko.
A car lies on a damaged road north of Beirut following an Israeli air strike.
Displaced people from southern Lebanon hold up bread covered in mold, as they demand aid for them and their families in a protest outside a school in Tyre.
Israel's ground operation in southern Lebanon continued on Thursday and Friday. Here, an Israeli tank operates against Hezbollah gunmen near the village of Aytarun.
Israeli soldiers read the paper while waiting for orders to advance into southern Lebanon.
A woman reacts at the scene of a fatal Hezbollah rocket attack on the northern Israeli town of Acre.
An Israeli reservist jumps covering his ears as a mobile artillery unit fires a 155 milimeter shell towards Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
These two satellite images provided by GeoEye show the same area of Beirut, Lebanon before and after Israeli bombardment.
A Lebanese man inspects the destroyed Madfun main bridge linking northern Lebanon with the rest of the country after it was hit by an Israeli air strike early Friday.
