I don't even know where our neighbourhood was," said one Lebanese Shi'ite, looking for where his home had been on the edge of a bomb-blasted Hizbollah compound in southern Beirut.

"They're still bombarding the area to grind it to dust. What kind of crime is this?" said the man, giving his name as Hassan.

Israelis, stunned by Hizbollah rocket attacks, said they wanted their army to smash the guerrilla group and most favoured killing its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a poll showed.

"We are killing those we need to kill," said Hanna Dehan, 60, speaking near the Israeli city of Haifa, where eight people were killed on Sunday when a Hizbollah rocket hit a train station.

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