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Israel-Lebanon cease-fire goes into effect AUGUST.14.2006
JERUSALEM - Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N. imposed cease-fire went into effect Monday after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people, devastated much of south Lebanon and forced hundreds of thousands of Israelis into bomb shelters. A half hour after the ceasefire took hold, Israeli warplanes a regular fixture in Lebanese skies during the month long war were absent across huge swaths of the country, including the Bekaa Valley, where air strikes hit about an hour before. Thousands of cars packed with luggage and some with mattresses strapped to the roof jammed the bombed out Zahrani highway linking the southern cities of Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Sidon, as Lebanese troops scrambled to repair roads in time for the deluge of refugees returning home. Hundreds of refugees camped out in a Beirut park packed up their belongings to return to the city's southern suburbs. There were no immediate reports of Hezbollah rockets being fired into Israel, a day after it fired more than 250 rockets, the worst daily barrage since fighting started July 12. Some exhausted Israeli forces pulled out of southern Lebanon early Monday, but were being replaced by fresh troops, and the army said there will be no immediate withdrawal from positions seized in the last few days. The army said in a statement the military was told not to initiate any action after 8 a.m. (11:00PM PST SUNDAY NIGHT) Monday, but "the forces will do everything to prevent being hit. In the final hours before the truce, however, Israeli warplanes struck a Hezbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon and a Palestinian refugee camp in the south, killing two people, and Israeli artillery pounded targets across the border through the night. The air strikes continued until 15 minutes before the truce went into force, destroying an antenna for Hezbollah's Al Manar television southeast of Beirut. The cease-fire was passed by the U.N. Security Council on Friday and approved by the Israeli and Lebanese governments. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah also signaled his acceptance. But Isaac Herzog, a senior minister in the Israeli Cabinet, said it was unlikely all fighting would be silenced immediately. "Experience teaches us that after that a process begins of phased relaxation," in the fighting, he said. Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres also said Israel was uncertain the truce would hold. "I believe that it has a chance. I can't say for certain," he said moments before it took effect. Implementation of the hard-won agreement already was in question Sunday night when the Lebanese Cabinet indefinitely postponed a crucial meeting dealing with plans to send 15,000 soldiers to police Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Lebanon. Lebanese media reported that the Cabinet, which approved the cease-fire plan unanimously Saturday, was sharply divided over demands that Hezbollah surrender its weapons in the south. That disagreement was believed to have led to the cancellation of Sunday's meeting. Lebanese leaders made no public comments. The deployment of the Lebanese army along Israel's border, with an equal number of U.N. peacekeepers, was a cornerstone of the cease-fire resolution passed Friday by the U.N. Security Council. The forces are supposed to keep Hezbollah fighters out of an 18-mile-wide zone between the border and Lebanon's Litani River. Officials said Israeli troops would begin leaving southern Lebanon as soon as the Lebanese army and the international force started to deploy in the area. But the military will maintain its air and sea blockade of Lebanon to prevent arms from reaching Hezbollah guerrillas, a military official said. France and Italy, along with predominantly Muslim Turkey and Malaysia, signaled willingness Saturday to contribute troops to the peacekeeping force, but consultations are still needed to hammer out the force's makeup and mandate and it was uncertain when it would be in place. Earlier Monday before the cease-fire, Israeli warplanes attacked a village in eastern Lebanon and the edge of a Palestinian refugee camp, leaving two people dead and nine wounded, security officials said. One of the raids hit an office of the pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General-Command just outside a refugee camp in the southern city of Sidon. One person was killed and three civilians who live near the office were wounded, security officials said. Israeli missiles also slammed into a minibus on the outskirts of the Hezbollah stronghold of Baalbek, killing one policeman and wounding six Lebanese soldiers, security officials said. The Israeli military also dropped leaflets on central Beirut early Monday, warning it would retaliate for any attack launched against it from Lebanon. One leaflet said Hezbollah serves the interests of its Iranian and Syrian patrons and has "brought destruction, Lebanon against the State of Israel. Addressed to Lebanon's citizens, it said, "Will you be able to pay this price again?" Some of the 30,000 Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon fought fierce battles with guerrillas Sunday before the cease-fire went into effect. Israel's army said seven soldiers were killed, a day after 24 died in the highest single-day death toll for the army since the conflict began. Hezbollah reported one of its fighters killed, but did not say when. Israeli jets pounded a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut with at least 23 missiles, most coming in a two-minute period Sunday. photographer who reached the area saw the body of a child being removed from the wreckage. TV pictures showed heavy damage appearing to stretch for several hundred yards in all directions in the neighborhood of medium-rise apartment buildings. Jets also attacked gas stations in the southern port city of Tyre on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, Lebanese officials said. Two Israeli air raids on houses in the eastern village of Brital killed at least eight people and wounded nearly two dozen, civil defense official Ali Shukur said. More people were feared trapped under the rubble, he said. Hezbollah fired 250 rockets Sunday, killing an Israeli man and wounding 53 people, rescue officials said. Cars were set afire in the northern city of Haifa. Israeli officials appealed to residents of the north who fled the rockets not to return before the government determined the situation was safe. As the fighting persisted, Israel's Cabinet held a stormy debate on the cease-fire, with minister Ophir Pines-Paz criticizing the government's decision to expand its ground offensive ahead of the truce. The Cabinet eventually approved the agreement 24-0, with one abstention. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the cease fire agreement would ensure that "Hezbollah won't continue to exist as a state within a state. In addition to authorizing the beefed-up international force in southern Lebanon, the Security Council resolution calls for the Lebanese government to be the only armed force in the country, meaning Hezbollah would have to be disarmed. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said the agreement, if implemented, "will lead to a significant change in the rules of the game in Lebanon. "I'm not naïve I live in the Middle East, and I know that sometimes not every decision is implemented. I'm aware of the difficulties. Yet with this I say with full confidence that the Security Council decision is good for Israel," she said. Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader, said Saturday that his guerrillas would abide by the cease-fire resolution, but warned it was "our natural right" to fight any Israeli troops remaining in Lebanon. The fighting erupted July 12 when Hezbollah guerrillas attacked an army patrol inside Israel, killing three soldiers and capturing two others. Five more Israelis were killed later in the day trying to rescue their comrades. Israel then launched an air and ground offensive, and 4 1/2 weeks of combat has killed at least 789 people in Lebanon mostly civilians_ and 154 Israelis, including 115 soldiers. Among the dead soldiers this weekend was Staff Sgt. Uri Grossman, the 20 year old son of renowned Israeli novelist and peace activist David Grossman. He was killed by an anti-tank missile Saturday, the army said Sunday. Livni said Israel would not stop trying to win the captured soldiers' release, but would not accept a link between their freedom and Hezbollah's demands that Israel free Lebanese prisoners.
  
  
Lebanon truce opens way to aid, returning refugees AUGUST.14.2006
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BEIRUT - Aid began flowing into south Lebanon on Monday hours after a U.N.-brokered ceasefire came into effect to end a conflict that killed over 1,200 people and drove almost one million from their homes. The U.N.'s World Food Programme sent 24 trucks of food, medicine and shelter material to the southern port of Tyre and other aid groups prepared to help tens of thousands of refugees expected to head south in the next few days. We're now nearly two hours into the ceasefire. We have no reports of any incidents so we are cautiously optimistic, said WFP spokesman Robin Lodge. The Israeli army said it would maintain a ban on unauthorised traffic south of the Litani river to prevent movement of Hizbollah gunmen and that anyone found on the road risked attack. It also said it would not lift an air and sea blockade on Lebanon, but the WFP said the ceasefire meant aid would now be allowed to flow freely by land and sea. With the ceasefire in place, there can no longer be any no go areas in Lebanon, said David Shearer, U.N. Humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon. OPENING ROADS The WFP said it would soon send food, shelter material and other supplies south by ship and set up a base at Tyre, which was cut off from the north a week ago when Israel bombed the last main bridge over the narrow, rocky Litani. It said U.N. peacekeepers were rebuilding the crossing and Lebanese security forces were clearing roads to swiftly bring aid to the 100,000 people believed trapped south of the river. Relief agency Mercy Corps said it was preparing to send food in bulk bags of rice, flour and tinned goods to Nabatiyeh, just north of the Litani, in anticipation of a huge influx of returnees. If they do return they are going to need a significant increase in food stocks," said Mercy Corps senior information officer Cassandra Nelson. The UNHCR refugee agency believes around a third of the 750,000 displaced who have taken shelter with host families and in schools and public buildings in northern Lebanon will return within days if the ceasefire holds.
  
  
Hezbollah leader a hero to many Arabs AUGUST.14.2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon Despite the terrible toll in death and destruction in Lebanon, even enemies and critics say the stature of Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has risen dramatically from his guerrillas fighting toe to toe with the Israeli army. Some have even taken to comparing the radical Shiite Muslim cleric to the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, who enjoyed wide popularity in the Middle East for standing up to the West and pushing for Arab unity. Hassan Nasrallah has won militarily and politically and has become a new leader like Nasser," Lebanese lawmaker Walid Jumblatt, a harsh critic of Hezbollah's alliance with Iran and Syria, said in a television interview .Hezbollah was already popular among Lebanon's 1.2 million Shiites, mainly from the armed struggle that led Israel to end an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon but also because of the group's network of social services and charities for the poor. Now, Israel's ferocious bombing has rallied many more Lebanese around Hezbollah, regardless of politics or religion, said Gen. Antoine Lahd, who led a now defunct militia that helped Israeli troops police the occupation zone before they withdrew six years ago. Beirut's leading newspaper, An Nahar, has long been critical of Hezbollah especially its harassing rocket attacks on Israel before the war began but it urged all Lebanese to stand behind Nasrallah's group to achieve victory against the Jewish state. When we look around we find in this battle two commanders: On the battlefield Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, and on the political and diplomatic front Prime Minister Fuad Saniora," An Nahar executive editor Edmond Saab wrote. Ironically, Saniora a staunch foe of Syria, which along with Iran is a strong supporter of Hezbollah also has seen his fortunes rise at home, for getting Lebanon's fractious politicians to work together and for resisting U.S. pressure to accept a truce more favorable to Israel. But in the wider world, it is Nasrallah's popularity that has shot up, among both his fellow Shiites and among Sunnis in the Middle East and with Muslims elsewhere. Arab Americans rallied outside the White House on Saturday waving Lebanese flags and chanting "Israel get out of Lebanon now." Earlier in the week in Moscow, Muslims carried a big picture of Nasrallah and waved Hezbollah flags outside the Israeli embassy. Some of the fiercest sentiment in support of the militant Shiite cleric has erupted during anti-Israel and anti-U.S. protests in predominantly Sunni countries like Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait all key U.S. allies in the region. Demonstrators have voiced outrage at their leaders for failing to back Hezbollah and Lebanon. Arab majesties, excellencies and highnesses, we spit on you," read one banner at near daily rallies in Cairo that have lashed out at Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for what is seen as his failure to support Nasrallah and his fighters. A delegation of Egyptian intellectuals, actors and artists visited Beirut last week to show solidarity with Lebanon and express support for Hezbollah. "The resistance (Hezbollah) will stay and the occupation will go," said Hussein Fahmi, one of Egypt's leading actors. Protests have even broken out among the normally quiet Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia, where demonstrations are rare though the demonstrators have been cautious not to criticize the ruling family, which initially was highly critical of Hezbollah for its July 12 raid inside Israel that killed eight soldiers and captured two. In Kuwait, thousands of people have taken to the streets in several demonstrations two in front of the U.S. Embassy to protest the Israeli offensive. Protesters held Nasrallah posters and Hezbollah's yellow flags and burned American and Israeli flags. Abdul Mohsen Jamal, a Shiite former lawmaker and columnist, wrote in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas on Saturday that even though Nasrallah had no military training "he succeeded in making the army of Israel a 'joke' for the world to laugh at."
 
  
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Israel to halt war in Lebanon on Monday August.12.2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel will halt its war in Lebanon at 7 a.m. Monday (midnight EDT Sunday night), a senior Israeli government official said Saturday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter. Israel's Cabinet was to endorse the U.N. cease-fire resolution later Sunday. Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, flew hundreds of commandos into the Hezbollah heartland, and some army units reached the Litani River on Saturday as both sides indicated they would accept the U.N. cease-fire plan to stop heavy fighting still raging in southern Lebanon. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday that she hoped the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas would end in a day or so. In an interview with Israel Television, Rice said that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan "is working with the parties to establish a timetable for the cease fire but I would hope that within no more than a day or so that there would be a cessation of the hostilities on the ground. Rice also said she believes that the cease-fire deal enhances Israel's security. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday seeking a "full cessation" of violence between Israel and Hezbollah, offering the region its best chance yet for peace after a month of fighting that has killed nearly 900 people. The resolution, adopted unanimously, authorizes 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon as Israeli forces that have occupied the area withdraw.
   
   
Israel pushes deeper into Lebanon despite U.N. vote August.12.2006
BEIRUT - Israeli forces thrust deeper into Lebanon against fierce Hizbollah resistance on Saturday and air strikes killed up to 20 people, hours after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution to end the month old war After the unanimous council vote on Friday night, Israel launched an expanded ground offensive in the south, even though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he backed the resolution. Relief officials said Israel was still denying permission for aid convoys to reach distressed civilians in the south. Israeli troops pushed west to Ghandouriyeh, a village 11 km (7 miles) inside Lebanon, their furthest penetration yet, security sources said. Hizbollah said it ambushed them there. Its statement was a tacit acknowledgement that the Israelis had forced their way through Hizbollah resistance at the village of Qantara, east of Ghandouriyeh. The guerrilla group said it had destroyed seven tanks. The Israeli army said one was hit. Air strikes in the south killed up to 15 people in the village of Rshaf, security sources said, and four civilians were killed when a pickup truck was hit in Kharayeb. One civilian was killed in air raids in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Israeli bombs also hit Beirut's suburbs, roads in the north, electricity pylons near Sidon, the Beirut-Damascus highway and the southern city of Tyre, witnesses and security sources said. The U.N. resolution called for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" and authorized up to 15,000 U.N. troops to move in to enforce a ceasefire. It said Hizbollah must halt all attacks and Israel must stop "all offensive military operations. Lebanon accepted the resolution and officials said the cabinet, which contains two Hizbollah loyalists, would confirm this at a meeting later in the day. The Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla group has made no comment on the U.N. vote. Olmert told President Bush he supported it and "thanked him for his assistance in keeping Israeli interests in mind at the Security Council," an Israeli official said. Olmert will urge his cabinet to approve the resolution at a meeting on Sunday, but an Israeli official said the army would not stop its Lebanon offensive before Sunday's cabinet session. ROCKET ATTACK Hours before the U.N. vote, Israeli aircraft fired rockets at a convoy of hundreds of civilian cars fleeing the south, killing at least seven people and wounding 36, the Lebanese Red Cross said. Israel said the attack was a mistake. At least 1,061 people in Lebanon and 124 Israelis have been killed in the war that began after Hizbollah guerillas captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said the U.N. resolution "vindicates Israel all the way through and says that Hizbollah was the aggressor and that they need to return the abducted soldiers . We achieved all we could from the U.N. The planned U.N. force will monitor the withdrawal of Israeli troops and help the Lebanese army maintain a ceasefire. The resolution stipulates that after fighting stops, Israel must withdraw all its forces from Lebanon at the earliest opportunity, in tandem with a U.N.-Lebanese troop deployment. The text added that to ensure a lasting peace, south Lebanon must be "free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons" other than those of the U.N.-Lebanese forces, implying a Hizbollah withdrawal or disarmament. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan chastised the council for not acting sooner to halt the conflict and stop civilian suffering, saying this had "badly shaken the world's faith in its authority and integrity. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she did not expect the resolution to end all violence, adding: "The conditions of a lasting peace must be nurtured over time." Aid agencies seeking access to an estimated 100,000 people trapped in the south said the U.N. vote had made no difference. We have not got concurrence from the Israeli army on any convoys at all, north, south or anywhere in the country, said David Orr, spokesman for the U.N. World Food Programme. "Despite the political agreement, we have ground to a halt.The resolution empowers the U.N. force, expected to be led by France, to take "all necessary action" to fulfil its mission. French President Jacques Chirac urged all parties to halt hostilities immediately. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also welcomed the resolution. This sends out an important signal that the international community is resolved to end the conflict, Merkel said.
 
 
  
Israeli drone strike on convoy kills 7 August.12.2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon - An Israeli drone fired at a convoy of refugees fleeing southern Lebanon on Friday night, killing at least seven people and wounding 22, an Associated Press photographer said. The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident. Early Saturday, Israeli warplanes struck several targets in north and south Lebanon, killing at least two people and wounding several others in the village of Kharayeb, security officials said, hours after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an end to the war. Security officials said warplanes destroyed a power station in the southern port city of Sidon. There was no immediate word on casualties. Local media also reported airstrikes in Akkar province, 60 miles north of Beirut, and in Tyre. The attack on the convoy was the most dramatic on a day of fighting Friday that saw Israeli air strikes pound south Beirut and border crossings to Syria, killing at least 15 others as ground fighting picked up intensity in the south of the country.Hezbollah on Friday sent another barrage of more than 150 rockets toward northern Israel. Rescue workers said eight people in the port of Haifa were wounded by shrapnel. The ongoing clashes have killed more than 800 people including at least 741 Lebanese and 123 Israelis. Lutfallah Daher, the photographer, was with the convoy when it was hit near the Bekaa Valley town of Chtaura, about 30 miles north of the Litani River. Israel has said it would attack any vehicle on roads south of the Litani, assuming it was carrying Hezbollah weapons or fighters. The photographer said that when the convoy left the Israeli occupied town of Marjayoun in southern Lebanon, it was made up of more than 600 civilian vehicles in addition to vehicles carrying 350 Lebanese soldiers and police. A few vehicles had left the convoy before it was hit, the photographer said. Daher lives in Marjayoun and was fleeing with his wife in one car. His mother, brother, sister in law and their child were in another car. None was harmed. Two armored U.N. peacekeeping vehicles were to have accompanied the convoy, Daher said, but were not present when Israeli forces in Marjayoun gave the convoy permission to head north. Israeli tanks and infantry took control of Marjayoun on Thursday. Israel's military said no convoys had been coordinated with the army. The region around Marjayoun, a mainly Christian town, was hit by Israeli warplanes and artillery during and after the Israeli advance.
  
  
  
Gaza Strip as bad as Lebanon august.3.2006 we need to do what this people and kids area doing and pray to god
to end this war on kids and people to mary of are peers have be killed in this war we need peace not blood for land are blood for oil god bless every one
The United Nations has called on world leaders not to forget the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying it is at least as serious as that in southern Lebanon. More than 140 people have been killed during Israel's operations there over the past month, many of them civilians. Delivery of food and other essential items has been reduced to a trickle. Thirty aid agencies backed the appeal, and one charity spoke of a sense among aid agencies that Gaza's population was being terrorised. Care International told the Press Western nations had failed to put pressure on Israel to rein in its actions and that attention was being focused on Lebanon at the expense of the situation in the Gaza Strip. According to the UN, Israel fires around 150 shells into the tiny territory every day in a bid to stop Palestinian militants who fire an average of 10 rockets across the border. Israel says it needs to target civilian areas because that is where militants base themselves but aid organisations say Gaza's population of 1.4 million is living in perpetual fear. Nowhere safe' Several nights a week the noise of Israeli helicopters vibrates over Gaza followed by the sudden explosion of air strikes. Israel has begun dropping leaflets and leaving telephone messages warning residents not to stay near militant homes but aid organisations say such measures leave people terrified and with nowhere safe to go. The UN is currently sheltering 1,000 people in schools in Gaza. Many others have moved in with relations. Aid agencies are also calling on Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. One hundred and fifty trucks carrying food and essential supplies are currently crossing the border each day but according to Care International this is only just enough to stop the population from starving. To keep people from being hungry and to restore food security, they say, Israel needs to increase this to 400. Gaza's population is already living in the dark. Since Israel bombed the power station homes are often without clean water or electricity and health officials say they are worried about the possible spread of disease. On Wednesday UN officials renewed warnings of a humanitarian crisis in the territory, which is suffering food, water and electricity shortages as well as repeated Israeli incursions, air strikes and shelling. Israel says it needs to target civilian areas because that is where Palestinian militants, who regularly fire rockets into Israel, are based and in GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli troops raided southern Gaza early Thursday, killing at least eight Palestinians, including four militants and an 8-year-old boy, Palestinian officials said, as Israel pressed ahead with its two-front offensive against Islamic militants. Israel's Gaza campaign began just over a month ago, with the aim of rescuing a captured Israeli soldier and halting rocket fire. Israel launched a war against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in mid-July, after guerrillas seized two soldiers and killed three. On Thursday morning, about 50 tanks pushed into an area near the Gaza-Egypt border before dawn, taking up positions near the long-closed Gaza airport, residents and Palestinian security officials said. The forces advanced about five miles, the farthest since the offensive started in late June, blocking a main highway and the eastern entrance to Rafah, a town on the Egyptian border. As the tanks took up positions, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at four groups of gunmen, killing four. Twenty-six Palestinians were wounded in the airstrikes, at least 10 of them militants, security and hospital officials said. Later, forces fired a tank shell at residents gathering in the area after daybreak, killing an 8-year-old boy and wounding three people, hospital and security officials said. Three more bodies were brought to the hospital early Thursday, but they were not believed to be militants, medics said. Rafah Governor Zuhdi al-Qudra said Israeli forces had taken over the roofs of houses near the airport, and that medics were unable to get to areas where casualties were reported from earlier fighting. He pleaded for the international community to help stop Israel's offensive. The Israeli army confirmed that there were troops in the area around the airport but said they were not impeding the work of medics. Gaza residents said by midday Thursday the firing had subsided but they were scared to move about because tanks remained in the streets. Israel launched its Gaza offensive after a June 25 cross-border raid by Hamas-linked militants who tunneled under the frontier and attacked an Israeli army post, killing two soldiers and capturing a third. Israeli ground forces have moved in and out of several parts of the territory regularly since then, confronting armed militants and leaving behind considerable destruction.
  
  
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Israel renews attacks on Beirut suburbs August.5.2006
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel fought bloody kills morn people again and ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, Loud explosions resounded in Beirut's suburbs early Saturday as Israeli warplanes renewed their onslaught, local media said. Israeli helicopters, meanwhile, attacked suspected Hezbollah positions in the southern city of Tyre, though Hezbollah's TV station claimed that fighters repelled helicopter borne troops who tried to land. Washington said it was near agreement with France on a U.N. cease fire resolution, possibly by early next week. Israeli aircraft on a mission Friday to destroy weapons caches hit a refrigerated warehouse where farm workers were loading fruit, killing at least 28 near the Lebanon Syria border. And three Hezbollah rockets landed near Hadera, 50 miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border; 188 rockets rained on other towns, killing three Israeli Arabs. Given the determination of both Hezbollah and Israel to look victorious when the conflict finally ends, the worst of the fighting may still lie ahead with the militant Shiite guerrilla fighters perhaps making good on their threat to rocket Tel Aviv and Israel launching an all out ground offensive, pushing northward to the Litani River. Israeli military officials said Friday they completed the first phase of the offensive, securing a 4-mile buffer zone in south Lebanon, though pockets of Hezbollah resistance remained. Defense Minister Amir Peretz told top army officers to begin preparing for a push to the Litani, about 20 miles north of the border a move that would require Cabinet approval. Peretz vowed his forces would complete "the whole mission" of driving guerrilla fighters out of missile range, a defiant response to the Hezbollah leader's threat to launch missiles into Israel's largest city. Warning of the potential for a larger war, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called for an immediate end to hostilities and said peacekeepers should be sent to southern Lebanon. He also called for the disarmament of Hezbollah and a redrawing of Lebanon's borders with Israel and Syria. "Otherwise, we may see explosions elsewhere," Annan said. Israeli air strikes destroyed four key bridges after dawn, severing Beirut's final major connection to Syria and raising the threat of severe shortages of food, gasoline and medicines within days. The attack in the Christian heartland just north of Beirut killed four civilians and a Lebanese soldier. Israel said it targeted the bridges to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah from Iran through Syria. Those weapons include not only missiles, but sophisticated anti tank missiles said to be responsible for most of the 45 Israeli soldiers killed in more than three weeks of fighting. However, aid workers said the destroyed highway was a vital conduit for much needed food and supplies, with Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program calling it Lebanon's "umbilical cord .This road has been the only way for us to bring in aid. We really need to find other ways to bring relief in," she said in Geneva, Switzerland. Hospitals were in danger of closing soon because medicines, hospital supplies and fuel for generators was fast running out. Staples like milk, rice and sugar were growing short across the country. Lines at Beirut filling stations stretch longer by the day. Dr. George Tomey, acting president of the American University of Beirut, said its Medical Center, one of the prime and best known medical facilities in the Middle East, will stop receiving new patients as of Monday, except for emergency cases. Dr. Ghassan Hammoud, who runs a 320-bed hospital packed with war wounded in the southern port city of Sidon, said he may have to shut down within 10 days. On the 24th day of the conflict, the State Department said Friday that the United States and France were nearing completion of a U.N. resolution designed to halt the fighting in Lebanon and to set out principles for a lasting cease fire. "We are very close to a final draft with the French on a text," the department spokesman Sean McCormack said. In a sign of billowing support for Hezbollah's Shiite fighters across the Arab world, tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims protested in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, chanting "Death to Israel, and at list as of Friday showed at least 559 Lebanese have been killed, including 482 civilians confirmed dead by the Health Ministry, 27 Lebanese soldiers and at least 50 Hezbollah guerrillas. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that 1 million people or about a quarter of Lebanon's population has fled the fighting. Others estimate some 800,000 Lebanese have been made refugee. Since the fighting started, Lebanese security officials and the state news agency said Israeli air strikes flattened two southern houses Friday and that more than 50 people were buried in the rubble. Israel denied attacking the villages, Aita al Shaab and Taibeh. Friday's attack on the refrigerated warehouse in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley killed at least 28 farm laborers as they loaded peaches and apples onto trucks bound for the Syrian market, Lebanese security and hospital officials said. Syria's official news agency, SANA, reported that 33 people were killed in the raid, including 23 Syrian workers. Israeli army spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal said the army suspected the warehouse was used for arms because it tracked a truck it believed was carrying weapons that went into the warehouse from the Syrian side. He said the truck stayed inside for about 90 minutes before returning to Syria. Israel contends that Hezbollah gets almost all of its weaponry from Syria and by extension Iran. That's why it says cutting off the supply chain is essential and why fighting Hezbollah after it has spent six years building up its arsenal is proving so painful to Israel. On Friday, the army confirmed a Hezbollah anti-tank missile killed three soldiers and wounded two others in southeastern Lebanon. In the last two days alone, these missiles have killed seven soldiers and damaged three Israeli-made Merkava tanks mountains of steel that are vaunted as symbols of Israel's military might, the army said. It said Hezbollah has fired Russian-made Metis-M anti-tank missiles and owns European-made Milan missiles. Hezbollah's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group's deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks. Experts say this is further evidence that Israel is facing a well-equipped army in this war, not a ragtag militia. In the second front of Israel's offensive against Islamic militants, an airstrike early Saturday in the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed at least two Palestinians and wounded five others, officials said. The Israeli army said its aircraft fired at several armed Palestinians.
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