Click to play videoBeirut: Israeli strikes continue to shake Lebanon. In Beirut, rescue workers are using bare hands and sheer determination to dig out bodies trapped under blasted buildings.
Searchers are looking for any signs of life after an Israeli airstrike reduced the structure to rubble. Meanwhile – Hezbollah is pounding northern Israel with its rockets.
Residents use bare hands to rescue survivors recover the dead Israel's attacks on Lebanon draw strong condemnation and outrage from the Arab world.
Foreign ministers offer support and sympathy and hear impassioned comments from Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
“We do not want the Lebanese state and its people to remain the punch bag of Israel or anyone else,” he says.
Siniora appeals to Arab capitals for urgent help at the United Nations to push for a peace deal Lebanon could accept free from Israeli troops in the south.
Choking back tears Siniora says Lebanon's arguments are based on the nation's sorrows over widows, dead children, the wounded and the homeless.
Political analyst Rami Khoury says, “This is an historic turning point that we are at right now. Israel has overplayed its hand militarily, has met its match to a certain extent and must turn to the diplomatic and the political option.”
Israel's rigorously enforced land and sea blockade is really starting to bite at street level this squeeze on essential fuel supplies has already reached danger levels with little hope of an early end to the siege.
“It's not going to stop. We don't believe the UN. We don't believe all the Arab world, we don't believe anyone,” he says.
With each passing day less fuel longer lines many Lebanese fearful that despite 11th hour diplomacy, they may have to face more war than peace.
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