Epstein Secrets

ve, and medium-range rockets capable of reaching Haifa. Hezbollah incurred a heavy toll for the fight, with much of the infrastructure in southern Lebanon devastated and roughly 1,300 Lebanese civilian casualties threatening to erode its popular support. Casualty numbers aside, Hezbollah emerged from

it southern Israel, reaching as far as Beersheba and Yavne. Several senior Hamas commanders and hundreds of militants were killed in the fighting. Israel Defense Forces figures showed that 10 IDF soldiers died (four from friendly fire), three Israeli civilians died from Palestinian rocket fire and 1,166 Palestinian

The stakes at the conference are thus exceptionally high, both for Syria and for its neighbors, which are straining against severe destabilization. Lebanon has taken in more than 800,000 Syrian refugees. Jordan and Turkey have more than a half-million each. Irki has received more than 200,000, and Egyp

ited John Allen, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, to lead 160 military and intelligence experts to devise a plan, in consultation with the Israel Defense Forces, to make the border on the Jordan River the most secure in the world. If Kerry's mission fails, Israel will be mistaken to assume that America will

e was walking, talking and even work- ing a bit. It compared him to a resistant tropical See CASTRO. SA ► Hostilities escalate ahead of cease-fire Lebanon's Cabinet seems torn over Hezbollah disarmament. By HENRY CHU and BORIOU DARAGAHI Los Aviles news BEIRUT — By air and on land. Is- raeli forces an

der way Sunday at Temple Beth Tikvah. The public was invit- ed to hear speakers including Michael Ha- dar, executive director of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, and Col. Udi Sharon of the Israel Defense Forms. Al the close of the rally, a man (right) participates in a congregational reading of a prayer fo