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...government sits in the palatial Grand Serail and discusses plans for a cease-fire. "The Americans are listening to us," said one government advisor. But the 48-hour halt to Israeli's air campaign announced by Rice from Jerusalem after the disaster at Qana hasn't stopped bombs falling. There were air strikes in the south. And if the feelings are too raw for Rice to visit Beirut - Lebanese leaders made clear Sunday that there was no point in her making her scheduled visit to the city Monday - the vacuum left by the limits on what America is prepared...
...peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon, known by the acronym UNIFIL, dispatch convoys of trucks and armored personnel carriers carrying essential humanitarian supplies to isolated villages. Yet although Israel said it was ceasing air operations for a 48-hour period, it did not call a halt to fighting on the ground or to air support expressly to support those ground troops. A white Mercedes races down the road, the driver waving his hand out of the window, motioning this reporter to stop. "The Israelis are shelling the road between Aitta Shaab and Rmeish," he says breathlessly, referring to two villages...
...bombs at 7:20 p.m., killing all four observers. UNIFIL insists there were no reports of Hizballah firing Katyusha rockets from the vicinity of observers' position, and that there was no obvious target for the Israelis that was discernible to UNIFIL. The officer contends that the Israelis did not halt their air strikes because "they don't care. They feel they have more important issues on their mind to hit Hizballah. Everything else is secondary." According to a senior U.N. official in Lebanon, the Israelis used "precision guided missiles," inferring that the air strike was not an accident...
...Arab-Israeli conflict for the past 25 years, is expressing displeasure with the Bush Administration's handling of the conflict in Lebanon. In written responses to questions from TIME, Mubarak said the emergency meeting with Arab envoys hosted by Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice in Rome Wednesday failed to halt the bloodshed. While not directly criticizing the White House's refusal to call for an immediate cessation of Israel's attacks on Lebanon, he complained that the crisis "could have been contained at its early stage" and demanded that the international community issue "a serious and urgent demarche"[diplomatic protest...
...recent days, a note of caution has crept into the soundbites of various Israeli military officers. Gone are the boasts that Hizballah will be hammered into oblivion. Instead, they're urging diplomacy and calling for the presence of a robust international peace-keeping force along the border to halt Hizballah's rocketmen. Meanwhile, as casualties rise, many of Israel' s formidable chariots of war are being pressed into ambulance service...