JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes continued to blast targets in Lebanon on Tuesday as a fierce new wave of rockets fired by Hezbollah guerrillas fell across northern Israel.
The Israeli military said its targets included a convoy of trucks carrying weapons into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley from Syria -- part of what Israel contends is a pattern of Syrian support for Hezbollah.
In Washington, President Bush accused Syria of trying to reassert its influence in Lebanon by supporting the guerrillas.
"Listen, Syria is trying to get back into Lebanon, it looks like to me," Bush said. He added that there were "suspicions that the instability created by the Hezbollian attacks will cause some in Lebanon to invite Syria back in, and it's against the United Nations policy and it's against U.S. policy."
Israel said it attacked more than 100 locations in Lebanon on Tuesday, and at least 27 people were reported killed. Hezbollah kept up its assault by launching more than 130 rockets, according to an Israeli count, and one man was killed in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya, about five miles from the Lebanese border, when his home was hit. Thirty Israelis were reported injured in various strikes.
In Lebanon, the dead included 11 people killed in an air assault on an army base. An airstrike on a house in Aitaroun killed as many as nine family members, including children, according to media reports.
In an interview with the BBC, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Israel was "opening the gates of hell and madness" on his country. He also urged Hezbollah to release two captured Israeli soldiers.
The fighting began last week after Hezbollah guerrillas captured the soldiers during a cross-border raid into Israel that also left eight Israeli soldiers dead.
Top Israeli officials who met Tuesday with a United Nations delegation repeated Israel's demand that the captured soldiers be returned and called for the deployment of Lebanese troops along the border.
The fighting has left more than 230 dead in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and 25 dead in Israel, 13 of them civilians. Air raid sirens wailed throughout the day in Israeli communities, including Haifa, the country's third-largest city, which has been struck repeatedly. Hezbollah has fired nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel since the start of the fighting, the Israeli military said.
The Israeli military says small forces are moving quickly in and out of Lebanon, mainly working to disarm bombs and wreck Hezbollah outposts.
