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Israeli warplanes bombed Lebanon for a seventh day Tuesday and the radical Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah rocketed the Israeli port city of Haifa in continued fighting that prompted the United States and other nations to step up efforts to evacuate thousands of their citizens from Lebanon.
More than two dozen people, most of them civilians, were reported killed in Israeli airstrikes Tuesday, pushing the death toll in Lebanon to more than 250 since the clashes began Wednesday with a cross-border attack into northern Israel by Hezbollah fighters. Among the latest casualties were 11 Lebanese army soldiers who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their barracks east of Beirut, Reuters news agency reported. Nine members of a family were also reported killed in an airstrike that hit their home in the southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun.
Hezbollah fired 50 rockets at Israel on Tuesday, including a large barrage an hour before sunset, striking about 10 towns and cities across northern Israel from Haifa on the Mediterranean coast to small tourist communities in the southern Galilee.
Several rockets struck Haifa, Israel's third largest city, about 22 miles south of the Israeli-Lebanese border. No casualties were reported Tuesday in Haifa, but one person was killed when a Katyusha rocket hit Nahariya, about four miles south of the border on the Mediterranean coast, the Israeli military reported. Eight people were killed in a rocket barrage on Haifa on Sunday, and the city's port remained closed for a second day because of the danger.
So far, 25 Israelis have been reported killed in the conflict, 13 of them civilians.
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