AFP
Sat Aug 5, 2006 PARIS - France and the United States agreed on a draft UN Security Council resolution on a ceasefire in Lebanon as
Israel hammered the country with what police described as the heaviest bombardment of the 25-day-old conflict. But Hezbollah warned that the Shiite movement's guerrillas would only stop fighting if Israel halted attacks and pulled out of south Lebanon. |
By Lin Noueihed
Reuters Sun Aug 6, 2006 BEIRUT - Lebanon rejects a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to end 26 days of fighting because it would allow Israeli forces to remain on Lebanese soil, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Sunday.
Slamming the French-U.S. draft as biased, Berri said it ignored a seven-point plan presented by Lebanon that calls for an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the return of all displaced civilians among other things. "Lebanon, and all of Lebanon, rejects any resolution that is outside these seven points," said Berri, who has been negotiating on behalf of Hizbollah guerrillas. "Their resolution will either drop Lebanon into internal strife or will be impossible to implement," he told a news conference. |
by Nayla Razzouk
AFP Sun Aug 6, 2006 BEIRUT - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said Damascus was ready for regional war and condemned a draft UN resolution seeking to end the violence in Lebanon as merely a recipe for more conflict.
"If Israel attacked Syria by any means from the ground or the air, our leadership has ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," he said Sunday, after meeting with pro-Syrian Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. Muallem, who was due to participate on Monday in Beirut in an Arab foreign ministers' meeting on Israel's devastating 26-day-old offensive on Lebanon, also condemned a UN draft resolution on the conflict in Lebanon. The UN draft resolution, sponsored by the United States and France, called for a "full cessation" of fighting, but not for the immediate pullout of Israeli forces from Lebanon. "The UN resolution is a recipe for the continuation of the (ongoing) war (between Israel and Hezbollah) ... and a recipe for civil war (in Lebanon) that nobody has interest in, but Israel," Muallem said. |
By Scott McDonald
Reuters Sat Aug 5, 2006 LONDON - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair backed a U.N. bid to end fighting in Lebanon, but the plan was greeted with skepticism by some on Saturday who wondered whether it could be implemented.
The draft U.N. Security Council resolution completed by the United States and France seeks to end fighting that began when the Iranian-backed group Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12. |
By Adrian Croft
Reuters Sat Aug 5, 2006 LONDON - Tens of thousands marched through London on Saturday to demand a halt to the Lebanon war and protest against the British government's failure to call for an immediate ceasefire.
Waving flags and banners, protesters booed and yelled "Ceasefire now!" and "Shame on you" as they passed the entrance to Downing Street, where British Prime Minister Tony Blair lives. A pile of children's shoes was left at a nearby war memorial to symbolize children's lives lost in the 25-day-old war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas. Demonstrators delivered a petition, which organizers said had been signed by 30,000 people, to Blair's office, urging the government to call for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire. "I have not been on a demonstration for 40 years. That is how much I consider this is important to be here today," Trevor Sutton, a retired 66-year-old man, said. "Anyone with any form of conscience must come and show their support for Lebanon." |
By Donald Macintyre in Kfar Giladi, Eric Silver in Jerusalem, Anne Penketh and Colin Brown
07 August 2006 Israel suffered its worst casualties in its 26-day war on Hizbollah while United Nations negotiations for a ceasefire intensified.
A direct hit by a Katyusha rocket killed 12 Israeli soldiers in the border kibbutz of Kfar Giladi yesterday while a barrage of rockets aimed at Israel's third city, Haifa, left three civilians dead and 150 wounded. On the other side of the border, 19 Lebanese civilians were killed by Israel's bombardment of southern Lebanon. |
Robert Fisk
7 August 06 So the great and the good on the East River laboured at the United Nations Security Council - and brought forth a lemon. You could almost hear the Lebanese groan at this draft resolution, a document of such bias and mendacity that a close Lebanese friend read carefully through it yesterday, cursed and uttered the immortal question: "Don't these bastards learn anything from history?"
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AFP
7 August 06 The United Nations has resumed debate on a draft resolution to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, complicated by the Lebanese government's objections to the plan.
Meanwhile, Arab foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in the war-ravaged capital of Beirut on Monday to discuss the crisis, amid warnings the conflict could escalate into the region. The council was to hold new consultations on a French-US draft after Lebanon opposed the text because it does not order an immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanese territory once hostilities end. Following the Lebanese objections, the council's five permanent members could not say when a vote on a text would be carried out. |
By Steve Holland
Reuters 7 August 06 CRAWFORD, Texas - President George W. Bush resisted a demand by Lebanon on Monday that Israeli troops immediately withdraw from southern Lebanon, saying it could create a vacuum and allow Hizbollah guerrillas to rearm.
"Whatever happens in the U.N., we must not create a vacuum into which Hizbollah and its sponsors are able to move more weapons," Bush said. Bush told reporters he wanted a U.N. Security Council resolution as quickly as possible, as he and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice worked to satisfy Lebanese concerns about a draft resolution. Comment: Oh! Be Still my heart! Dubya and Condosleaza are on the job! We're saved!
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By Lin Noueihed
Reuters 7 August 06 BEIRUT - Lebanon's prime minister, choking back tears, demanded a "quick and decisive ceasefire" on Monday after an Israeli air raid that he said killed more than 40 civilians sheltering from fighting in a southern village.
As diplomatic efforts to end the 27-day-old war between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas stalled, air raids elsewhere in the south and the Bekaa valley killed at least 24 Lebanese and Israel said it may expand its ground offensive. "An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs," Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut. |
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