Residents of the Beirut suburb of Dahieh and Chariah are loaded into buses bound for Tripoli in North Lebanon hours after the IDF dropped leaflets warning them to evacuate their neighborhoods. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
California Congressman Darrell Issa watches as a refugee woman screams “kill Bush” in arabic as she holds aloft her baby that she delivered three days ago at a Catholic Relief Services shelter in the Aschrafieh area of Beirut. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Evacuations from the Beirut suburbs of Dahieh and Chariah load buses bound for Tripoli in North Lebanon. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Residents evacuate the Beirut suburbs of Dahieh and Chariah. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
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Israeli army medics evacuate a wounded soldier to a waiting helicopter from at a make-shift field hospital near Kiryat Shmona. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Israeli army medics treat a wounded soldier and prepare him for evacuation by helicopter. Israeli forces sustained heavy casualties today and yesterday since the escalation of the conflict. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, part of the forces massed on the Lebanese border in Metula, prepared to move out as part of the expanded ground operation authorized by the Israeli security cabinet yesterday. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Janet Hansen, 55, feeds some of the over 200 dogs she cares for at the Habasha Kennel on the outskirts of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel. Janet has been running the shelter for 12 years without break despite numerous conflicts that have threatened the region. (Damon Winter / LAT)
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Israeli soldiers carry a wounded comrade off an armored personnel carrier to a waiting ambulance after crossing the border from Lebanon into northern Israel. (Jacob Silberberg / AP)
Mourners carry some of the flag-draped bodies of Lebanese citizens, killed when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building. (Hussein Malla / AP)
Israeli soldiers hold their weapons after returning to the Israeli side of the border from a 48-hour mission inside southern Lebonon. (Damon Winter / LAT)
An Israeli infantry soldier kneels by the roadside in southern Lebonon. (Damon Winter / LAT)
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Israeli soldiers brandish their weapons after returning to the Israeli side of the border from a 48-hour mission. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Israeli soldiers fire artillery into southern Lebonon from a position in northern Israel. (Damon Winter / LAT)
An Israeli soldier waits to reload another round into a mobile artillery unit on the Lebanese border Tuesday. Israel maintained pressure on Hezbollah positions with artillery and airstrikes in support of its ground forces. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Israeli soldiers cover their ears as a round is fired into southern Lebanon from a position near the Lebanese border. (Damon Winter / LAT)
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Residents of Kiryat Shmona rush to board a bus to Netanya on the Mediterranean coast for five days of recuperation. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Residents of Kiryat Shmona were evacuated from the northern Israeli town on the Lebanese border to Netanya on the Mediterranean coast for five days of recuperation. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Kiryat Shmona has sustained the heaviest bombardment from Hezbollah rockets since the conflict started one month ago. The Israeli government offered the respite to residents who were previously unable to leave. The government has authorized the evacuation of fifteen thousand residents of northern Israel. (Damon Winter / LAT)
Hady Al Aschar joins a group of Beirut artists who laid out more than 400 cinderblock headstones with candles downtown to commemorate the victims of hostilities with Israel. (Damon Winter / LAT)
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A man stands by the door of his home in Tyre. Most residents remained close to their homes on Tuesday after Israeli planes dropped leaflets telling residents not to drive or they would be considered a target. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Jaffer Samar watches as Israeli jets circle over Tyre. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Naemi, age 70, comforts her neighbor on a day when residents of Tyre were instructed by Israeli leaflets not to move around the city. Bombing continued in Tyre on Tuesday. “Where are we going to go?” asked Naemi. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
A man fishes for his dinner in Tyre as Mohammed Dayah, age 10, stands nearby. Tyre is normally an active fishing village, but no one has been going out by boat since the war began. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
