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Tue 07 Jul 2006Lebanon Air strikes kill 42 as rockets rain down on IsraelThe beginning of the sixth day of the Israeli offensive on Lebanon saw much more international handwringing but only tentative moves towards United Nations intervention as 42 civilians died in Israeli air strikes and dozens of Hizbullah rockets continued to rain down on northern Israel, write Peter Hirschberg in Jerusalem and Patrick Smyth, Foreign Editor.Many thousands of refugees have left their homes in southern Lebanon and south Beirut for refuge, many in the open air, away from the Israeli attacks. Some 100,000 have crossed into Syria to escape the violence.