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Mon 07 Jul 2006Hizbullah rockets strike Israel as Beirut is hit againIsraeli aircraft yesterday again bombed targets in Beirut, as well as east and south Lebanon, killing eight civilians and wounding some 100, while in Israel two people were killed and dozens wounded as close to 100 rockets fired by Hizbollah pounded towns across the north of the country, write Peter Hirschberg in Jerusalem, Denis Staunton in Washington and Mark Brennock.Foreigners fleeing the fighting, meanwhile, continued to stream out of Lebanon, with Cyprus expecting to take in thousands more yesterday. Several hundred evacuees were also heading yesterday by boat for Turkey.