NBC Nightly News - 1982-06-05
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:08] This is NBC Nightly News. Reporting from
[0:11] New York, Jessica Savage.
[0:14] >> Good evening. Tonight, Israel is staging
[0:16] a massive air, land, and sea bombardment
[0:19] of Palestinian positions in southern
[0:21] Lebanon. Israeli tanks are rolling into
[0:23] Lebanon. Israeli army reserves are being
[0:25] called up. This is the worst breakdown
[0:28] yet in the 10-month-old border
[0:29] ceasefire. Palestinian forces are firing
[0:32] rockets into Israel. The death toll in
[0:35] Lebanon tonight uncertain it may run
[0:37] into the hundreds. Here's our
[0:39] correspondent Steve Mallalerie in
[0:41] Beirut.
[0:43] >> Israeli war plananes street across
[0:45] Lebanon. They bombed and rocketed target
[0:49] after target, hour after hour.
[0:54] While warplanes bombed and strafed,
[0:56] Israeli and Palestinian gunners duelled
[0:58] across the Lebanese Israeli border.
[1:02] The Israeli jets struck at will. Some
[1:04] bombs hit Palestinian strongholds,
[1:07] refugee camps, villages, and many
[1:10] Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.
[1:13] In Doha, south of Beirut, Israeli bombs
[1:16] cut a major coastal highway. Several
[1:19] cars were hit. a school bus. 15 died in
[1:24] the bus.
[1:26] Tractors helped dig bodies from the
[1:28] debris around the bomb craters.
[1:31] Bystanders asked why. No military
[1:34] positions here.
[1:36] The scope and intensity of the raids
[1:38] were so extensive that the number of
[1:40] casualties is still unknown.
[1:43] The Israeli planes continued their raids
[1:45] until late in the afternoon. Palestinian
[1:48] guerillas remain at their battle
[1:49] stations expecting more and bigger
[1:52] strikes. Steve Mallalerie, NBC News,
[1:55] Beirut.
[1:57] Palestine Liberation Organization
[1:59] reports its guerillas