Shaul Schwarz

Israel: Israel Lebanon War

The second Lebanon war as it has been called broke out on July 12th after Hezbollah militants attacked Israel with rockets as a diversion for an anti tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border. Of the seven Israeli soldiers in the two Humvees, two were wounded, three were killed, and two were captured and taken to Lebanon. Five more were killed in a failed Israeli rescue attempt. Israel responded with massive air strikes and artillery fire on targets in Lebanon, which damaged Lebanese civilian infrastructure, including Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport. Schwarz rushed to the Israeli border and covered the ongoing war as it unfolded from the Israeli side for Time Magazine. His coverage included a picture taken in a funeral of an Israeli solider that was chosen by Time for pictures of the year collection 2006.

An Israeli soldier reacts as an Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
   
An Israeli soldier looks on as a Blackhuck helicopter approches in order to take wounded Israeli soldiers after evacuating them from southern Lebanon.
   
Israeli soldiers get ready to enter Lebanon.
     
  
An Israeli soldier has a smoke before going on a mission inside Lebanon.
   
A plume of smoke billows in the Lebanese border village of Aita-al after an Israeli Air-Force attack.
   
Israeli Fire fighter at a residences destroyed by a Hezbollah rocket attack.
     
  
Israeli Arab women at the site of a Hezbollah missile attack in the Arab Israeli town of Deir Al-Assad in the north of Israel.
  
Israeli soldiers shows a Lebanon and Hezbollah flags as they come back from action against Hezbollah guerillas in south Lebanon.
   
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon,
     
  
An Israeli soldier runs throu a field as he crosses the border entering Lebanon.
  
Rescue workers carry an injured woman after a Hezbullah missile attack in the Arab Israeli town of Deir Al-Assad .
   
Israeli citizens sleep in an underground shelter during Hezbollah missile attack in the north of Israel.
     
  
Israeli soldiers take positions along the Israeli Lebanese border prior to entering into Lebanon.
   
A wounded Israeli soldier is evacuated after he was injured during action against Hezbollah in south Lebanon .
   
Members of Israeli paratrooper Yiftach Shrayer's family grieve at his graveside during his funeral in the cemetery of Haifa.
     
  
Israeli soldiers carry the bodies of Hezbollah guerillas killed in clashes in southern Lebanon.
   
Ambulance drivers run out of the emergency room located in the basement after hearing a siren warning of incoming missiles.
   
A body of a man killed in a Hezbollah missile attack is lead to the Nahariya hospital morgue.
     
  
Bodies of a man killed in a Hezbollah missile attack in the Nahariya hospital morgue.
   
An Israeli carries a stretcher with bloodstains at the Nahariya Hospital after at least 15 soldiers were injured from a Hezbollah missile attack.
   
     
  
A wounded Israeli soldier is bed to bed with an Israeli Arab lady in the emergency room at the Nahariya Hospital.
  
A doctor in the Nahariya hospital washes his hands before entering the operation room.
   
Shmuel Cohen, an Israeli wounded by Hezbollah missile attack lies in bed in the Nahariya hospital.