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southern Lebanon on Sunday, doubling the tide of refugees to 400,000 and provoking guerrilla vows to tum northern Israel into a “fiery hell.”
    Undaunted by Israel’s four-day aerial barrage, Hizballah guerrillas hit northern Israel with rockets that came crashing down every 20 minutes for seven hours. One person was wounded and an empty school and other property were damaged.
    Israeli jet fighters knocked out a Beirut power relay station, cutting electricity to many parts of the capital and its suburbs. It was the first deliberate attack on an economic target since Israel launched its offensive against the Iranian-backed Hizballah on Thursday.
    Hizballah’s Al-Manar television station showed about 50 would-be suicide bombers with explosives strapped to their chests—members of a “brigade of martyrdom-lovers” ready to avenge the Israeli attacks.
    About 190,000 panicked Lebanese residents fled the southern port city of Tyre and 41 surrounding villages Sunday after Israel warned it would attack the area at sundown to drive out guerrillas.
    â€œWhenever Israel and Hizballah are mad at each other, we pay the price,” said Kassem Reda Ali, a 68-year-old farmer fleeing his home for the second time in three years.
    â€œWhy prolong our agony?” he asked. “Just throw us in the sea.”
    Zayneb Duhainy, a Shiite Muslim housewife, hugged her 4-year-old son and blamed the United States for not intervening to stop the Israeli offensive.
    â€œWhen Kuwait was invaded, the U.S.A. rushed to its aid,” she said. “Are the Kuwaitis human beings and we’re animals?”
    About 400,000 refugees—more than half of the population of southern Lebanon and about one-tenth of the country’s people—were headed north Sunday for the relative safety of Beirut.
    The mass exodus was reminiscent of the last major Israeli strike against Hizballah, a weeklong offensive in July 1993 that killed 147 Lebanese, wounded about 500, and uprooted half a million people.
    With huge numbers of people on the move Sunday, Israeli aircraft struck again.
    The southern market town of Nabatiyeh and southeastern villages took the brunt of the raids, which destroyed several houses belonging to Hizballah commanders.
    Israeli aircraft also struck near Tyre, hitting a civil defense ambulance and injuring four paramedics. It was Israel’s second helicopter raid on an ambulance in as many days. Saturday’s attack killed six civilians, including three children.
    The recent violence has engulfed not only the long-tense South but the capital, too, for the first time since Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to expel Palestinian guerrillas.
    With elections just six weeks away, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel has hit hard at Hizballah in an effort colored partly by a desire to prove he will not let peacemaking compromise Israel’s security.
    At a weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, Peres said Israel’s military campaign was open-ended, but he added: “If the Hizballah ceases its attacks, we will cease ours.”
    Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri called Israel’s attacks in Lebanon unjustified.
    â€œThe Lebanese people are paying the price of Peres’ election and that’s not right,” he said in Paris, where French leaders were planning to send their foreign minister to the Middle East to try to mediate a cease-fire.
    Hizballah issued a statement saying it would continue firing rockets on northern Israeli towns and vowed to turn the area “into a fiery hell.”
    Twenty rockets fell on more than a dozen settlements in less than seven hours, and the guerrillas said they had expanded the range of their attacks to Safed, five miles south of the border.
    Most casualties from the latest round of fighting have been Lebanese civilians. Israel says guerrillas were putting civilians in harm’s way by hiding among them, while Lebanon maintains Israel is deliberately