Toll climbs in Mideast

Israeli solders firing 155mm shells toward targets in Lebanon near the town of Kiriyat Shmona.  (Atef Safadi / EPA)

Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli air strike in Tyre in south Lebanon.  (Hassan Ammar AFP/Getty Images)

Black smoke rises from a truck set ablaze following Israeli airstrikes in the city of Zahle, in the Bekaa Valley.  (Samer Husseini / AP)

Burned cars lie in deserted streets of the southern suburbs of Beirut.  (Haitham Mussawi AFP/Getty Images)

A Lebanese citizen inspects the damages to his home following an Israeli air strike in a southern Lebanese village near Nabatyieh.  (Mostapha Hammoud AFP/Getty Images)

Yousef Jaffer walks in the rubble of his house after it was hit by a bomb dropped by Israeli warplane.  (Marco Di Lauro / Getty Images)

A member of the Lebanese civil defense rides a motorcycle amid rubble in the suburbs of Beirut.  (Ben Curtis / AP)

Zahra Al-Jamira, 18, cries after realizing her face is burned as a result of an Israeli airstrike.  (Marco Di Lauro / Getty Images)

Israeli border police and emergency vehicles at the site of a rocket attack in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.  (Yaron Kaminsky / AP)

An Israeli policeman blocks entry to the site of a rocket attack by Hezbollah guerrillas on the train station in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.  (Baz Ratner / AP)

A home destroyed by a bomb dropped by Israeli warplane on the outskirts of Tyre in southern Lebanon.  (Marco Di Lauro / Getty Images)

Israeli police officers stand next to cars destroyed by a rocket fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah guerrillas.  (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Damaged apartment buildings stand in the devastated southern suburbs of Beirut.  (Haitham Mussawi AFP/Getty Images)

Armed Palestinian women, members of the Popular Resistance Committees, burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag, during a rally in the streets of Gaza City.  (Mohammed Saber / EPA)

Armed Palestinian women protest Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.  (Abid Katib / Getty Images)