Spiral of violence - July 13

Fuel storage tanks blaze after Israeli helicopter gunships unleashed missiles at Rafik Hariri International Airport, in Beirut.  (Hussein Malla / AP)

Israeli mobile artillery unit fires on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Overnight an Israeli woman was killed in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya by rockets fired from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah.  (Uriel Sinai / Getty Images)

An Israeli stands where a Hezbollah hit a building in the northern costal town of Nahariya.  (Ariel Schalit / AP)

Jordanian and Kuwaiti cars enters the Syrian border crossing of Jdeideh.Thousands of tourists poured into Syria from Lebanon, fleeing Israeli bombing.  (Bassem Tellawi / AP)

Saudi Arabian citizens wait to board buses as they prepare to be evacuated to Syria from their embassy in Beirut.  (Mahmoud Tawil / AP)

Israeli emergency officials at work where a Hezbollah rocket hit a building in the coastal town of Nahariya.  (Ariel Schalit / AP)

Israeli medics treat a cameraman after a Hezbollah rocket struck in the northern costal town of Nahariya.  (Ariel Schalit / AP)

Lebanese army officers inspect a bridge that was destroyed after Israeli warplanes struckt overnight in the town of Damour.  (Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

Israeli police and rescue workers at the scene of a rocket attack by Hezbollah militants on the northern Israeli town of Safed.  (Oded Balilty / AP)

Vehicles clog the Masnaa border between Lebanon and Syria on the outskirts of the Bekaa Valley, east of Beirut.  (Samer Husseini / AP)

Lebanese inspect a bridge that was destroyed in an airstrike by Israeli fighter jets.  (Mohammed Zaatari / AP)

Lebanese search for survivors under a collapsed building after Israeli warplanes struck in the village of Zebqin.  (Mohammed Zaatari / AP)

Israeli army officers lower the simple pine coffin of Israeli soldier Wasim Salah Nazal in the northern Israeli Druze community of Yanuh.  (David Silverman / Getty Images)