UN: Hezbollah and Israel agree on Monday cease-fire (CNN) Updated: 2006-08-13 11:43
Convoy attack dispute
Attacks by Hezbollah continued, as well. By 6 p.m. Saturday about 48 rockets
landed in northern Israel, 14 of them reaching cities, officials said. Three
people received minor injuries, police said.
On Friday, Hezbollah launched 150 rockets, Israeli authorities told CNN.
Lebanese security sources are accusing Israel of firing eight missiles on an
army convoy that included more than 1,000 civilian vehicles in the Bekaa Valley,
killing at least six people and wounding 41 others Friday. CNN's Michael Ware
described the scene of the aftermath as "appalling carnage."
The IDF said Saturday it did not grant permission for the convoy.
"Of the aid convoys that were authorized and coordinated by the IDF
throughout this entire period, not a single convoy was hit by IDF fire," the
Israeli military said.
But a spokesman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, Milos Strugar, said
the Israeli army had cleared the convoy for travel along a specific route to
Zahle.
Since the war began, 880 Lebanese have been killed, most of them civilians,
and 3,529 wounded, according to Lebanese Internal Security Forces. Israel said
92 military personnel and 40 civilians had been killed and about 1,000
wounded.
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