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Friday, 28 July 2006, 12:32 GMT 13:32 UK

In pictures: Lebanon crisis

Civilians and rescue teams try to extinguish fires and search for survivors after an Israeli air strike on Tyre
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Israel is maintaining its bombardment of Lebanon, as the conflict enters its third week.

People help a young Lebanese girl injured in an Israeli air strike on her home in the southern city of Tyre
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A young Lebanese girl becomes another civilian casualty of the battle between Israel and Hezbollah.

An Israeli girl is treated for shock in an emergency room after a Hezbollah missile strike
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The shock and suffering is also continuing in Israel.

An Israeli border policeman stands guard as firemen put out a fire caused by a Hezbollah missile strike in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona
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Hezbollah has sustained its rocket-fire on Israeli towns.

Lebanese children arrive on the back of a truck in Beirut
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The conflict is driving thousands of Lebanese people from their homes.

 A boy plays with a ball in a university being used as a shelter in Beirut
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A boy amuses himself with a ball in a temporary shelter in a Beirut university.

A Lebanese woman recovers belongings from the rubble of a destroyed southern Beirut neighbourhood
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Elsewhere in the capital, it is harder to pick up the pieces.

An honour guard lines the graveside of an Israeli paratrooper
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The Israeli government is calling up thousands more reserves amid mounting military casualties.

An Israeli tank pushes across the border into southern Lebanon
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The death toll and resistance have prompted questions inside Israel about its military strategy.

Evacuees from the southern Lebanon port city of Tyre upon arrival in Cyprus
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Many of those caught in the crisis face an uncertain future.


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