Chirac immoral to abandon the truce
twenty-ninth day of the war in Lebanon. He arrived unannounced to Beirut assistant U.S. secretary of state for the Middle East David Welch, who had interview lasted about an 'hour with Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, presumably on the amendments to the draft UN resolution in preparation for the Security Council, which gave the announcement in New York representative of France, Jean Marc de la Sabliere. Also continued contacts between the two Western countries to reach an agreement. "Giving up an immediate ceasefire would be the most immoral of solutions," said French President Jacques Chirac addressed the United States that seem to have hours of "reserves". French president to the international force in Lebanon could be deployed within one month from the political. Agree an immediate ceasefire, but based on the proposal of the seven points drawn from Beirut, the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has also called for an international inquiry into what he calls "criminal acts" committed by Israel in Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened the security cabinet, but still has not decided whether to authorize the expansion of military operations of land in the south of the country, as military leaders would rather. The Prime Minister fears that there may be many losses of soldiers, the newspaper Haaretz.
From 12 July, the day of the beginning of the offensive, 36 Israeli civilians have died, victims of the Hezbollah Shiite militia rockets and 67 soldiers. But above all, salt, and so exponential, the death toll in Lebanon. Last night in Lebanon two cannon shots were fired from ships on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Helu, near Sidon, and caused two deaths and eight injuries. Missiles were fired at two houses Machgara in the south of the Bekaa Valley, where they were killed a Hezbollah leader, his wife and five children, and bombings have continued in several other locations in Lebanon, the destruction of a bridge Arqa and a power line just rebuilt in the region of Akkar. Several villages in the same area were subjected to heavy attacks, while in Kfar Tibnit were hit two houses (there were deaths and injuries in unknown number) and an 'ambulance carrying four volunteers, who were injured.
morning Israeli fighters bombed the road that runs parallel to the border with Syria to 'At the height of Qaa, in the far northeast of Lebanon, breaking the link road between Baalbek and Homs. In the same area last week launched missiles from fighters had killed 34 workers, some Syrian Kurds, who unloaded crates of fruit in a warehouse of two Lebanese traders.
very intense fights are also continued throughout the morning and are still in progress - from what the tv el 'Lebanese news agency NNA - in the area of \u200b\u200bBint Jbeil, and further south, along the southern border between Lebanon and Israel. Sources reported Israel 's killing of ten Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, while sources speak of the destruction of five Israeli tanks in different parts of the face (two in the last hours in the area of \u200b\u200bAita El Shaab), killing at least four Israeli soldiers.
According to the same sources Hezbollah guerrillas have rejected penetration of Israeli forces in several localities in the south, while appeals for aid to isolated populations are from the villages of Al Borghelje Kabriha and on the coast just north of Tyre, where 200 families were left without food, without water and without medication. The port city and its surroundings have suffered new attacks.
In terms of psychological warfare leaflets were dropped by Israeli planes over Beirut and Sidon with messages of propaganda against Hezbollah, which for their part announced that they have fired rockets on Israeli soil, and particularly against Kiryat Shmona, and Kfar Margeliot Gilati.
Posted 08.09.2006 - Source: Ticino Online
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