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Latest New from miscellaneous sources for August 6/2006
Hezbollah rockets kill 10 in N. Israel-AP
Rice: U.N. draft alone won't fix Lebanon-AP
Jewish groups support Harper-National Post - Canada
IDF Special Forces continue operating deep into Lebanon-Ha'aretz
Israel Moves Deeper Into Lebanon-Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Livelihoods in Lebanon Blown Out of the Water-Los Angeles Times
Appointment In Damascus-Newsweek - USA
Syria and Iran at Odds-Strategy Page - USA
Syria Blames Israel for Massacre-Arutz Sheva - Israel
Protesters use Hiroshima anniversary to call for Lebanon cease -ABC Online - Australia
Lebanese official: Three UN peacekeepers wounded in south Lebanon-Israel Insider
People across Lebanon feel engulfed in the war-BBC News - UK
LEBANON: Hezbollah: its origins and aims-Green Left Weekly
Brazilian synagogue attacked in protest at Lebanon offensive-Irish Independent
Govt urged to do more for Lebanon-ABC Online - Australia
Five killed in IAF raid on south Lebanon village-Jerusalem Post
Lebanon's 3rd-Largest City Warned of Strikes-Washington Post
US and France Back Plan to End Lebanon Clashes-New York Times
Focus: Players in a tragic conflict-Guardian Unlimited - UK
Hezbollah fighters killed in raid-The Australian
ANALYSIS: The U N cease-fire proposal needs Hezbollah seal-Ha'aretz
Lebanon death toll 'reaches 900'-BBC News
Israelis should stay in Lebanon: US-NEWS.com.au
London march urges end to Lebanon war, targets Blair-Reuters
march urges end to Lebanon war-Boston Globe

Note on the UN Security Council Resolution Regarding Israel-Hezbollah Conflict
By Walid Phares-Counterterrorism blog
The current consensus within the United Nations Security Council on the resolution to address the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is the result of a review of four positions and the selection of the middle way between all the latter:
Hezbollah: Yes to a cease fire, and only cease fire, leaving open the question of disengagement. Hezbollah, Iran and Syria wants to stop the Israeli campaign, rearm and reorganize; but also concentrate their pressure on the Lebanese Government to crumble it and replace it with a pro-Hezbollah cabinet.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora
Seniora Lebanese Government: (The so-called 7 points plan): Yes to a cease fire with measures on the ground that would be considered as a disengagement. Yes in principle to the idea of a multinational role without many details nor a discussion of Hezbollah's arms.
The French position: Yes to a cease fire, a disengagement plan and the principle of a multinational force to be discussed in details later.
The American position: Yes to a disengagement plan based on the formation of a multinational force which would secure a cease fire, and remove Hezbollah's weapons.
The Israeli position: Yes to a resolution that would call for disarming Hezbollah, forming a powerful multinational force and as a result of it a long term cease fire
Other drafts by Lebanese NGOs have also been submitted to the UNSC as well.
It seems that the French position has obtained the most likely consensus. But if this the case, then another UNSCR may well be discussed and voted after the French influenced resolution which concentrates on "ceasing hostilities."
After exchange of analysis with leaders from the International Lebanese Committee for UNSCR 1559, Members of Parliament in Lebanon, Lebanese NGOs in Beirut and Lebanese Lobby sources in Washington and Brussels this evening, a consensus was made on the following projections:
a. Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, will most likely oppose this resolution on the ground of "rejecting all plans that doesn't include an unconditional withdrawal by Israeli forces behind the blue line."
b. A rejection by Hezbollah, Pro-Syrian Lebanese President Lahoud, their local allies as well as Damascus and Tehran of the formation and the deployment of a Multinational force, other than the UNIFIL, deployed in the region since 1978, with no deterrence mission. "Either the UNIFIL or nothing," said pro-Syrian politician Nabih Berri last week.
c. It is unlikely that the current Seniora cabinet would uprise against Hezbollah at this stage and eject the organization's ministers from the Government. The Seniora Government is expected to stagnate in status quo.
d. Egypt and Saudi Arabia will attempt to convince Bashar Assad to accept the principle of the resolution, but without major results for now.
Walid Phares, Senior Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a Visiting Fellow with the European Foundation for Democracy, author of "Future Jihad"

Urge prime minister to call for immediate ceasefire in Mideast
Jennifer Ditchburn, Canadian Press
Published: Saturday, August 05, 2006 Article tools
CORNWALL, Ont. (CP) - Protesters accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper of toeing the American line on the Middle East conflict, as they rallied Friday outside the site of the Conservative caucus meeting.
About 80 people, mostly from Montreal, urged Harper to call for an immediate ceasefire in the region. So far, the Conservative government has supported a ceasefire only as long as certain conditions are met, such as a halt to attacks by both Hezbollah and the Israeli army.
"I'm astounded at the injustice of Harper's position in terms of unconditionally supporting Israel when at this point in time the civilian death count is over 900," said Jordan Topp, who has taught in Lebanon and has friends there.
"People have been killed across the country in Lebanon, and it's not what he's called a 'measured' response."
Demonstrators waved Lebanese flags and placards at passing motorists outside the Nav Canada facility, which is inaccessible to everyone but guests there. They chanted slogans such as "Harper stop fighting, come out and face the justice!"
Daad Elsaadi of Finch, Ont., said she and her husband had planned to visit Lebanon where they owned property, but instead donated the money from the plane ticket to humanitarian assistance.
"My house burned, my land burned, my olive trees burned, my walnut trees burned, and I don't care," cried Elsaadi.
"I only care for the innocent people and for the children who are dying, for the women who are giving birth in the backyard and their children are dying."
Later, staff members from Harper's office invited two of the protesters inside to meet with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay and with Industry Minister Maxime Bernier.
Harper has called Israel's attacks on Lebanon to neutralize the threat of Hezbollah a "measured" response. But that assessment has apparently hurt the party in recent weeks, with a pair of polls suggesting that support for the Conservatives, and their Middle East policy, is sliding.
Jerome Charaoui of Montreal said Harper has hurt the positive image that Canada has had among Arab states.
"Traditionally, they've regarded Canada as a peaceful country, as a mediator between countries, and will now only see Canada as being aligned with George Bush's imperial policy in the Middle East," said Charaoui, whose relatives in Lebanon are in hiding.
Said Hafizi, an Afghani-Canadian, comforted his school-aged daughter who began crying on the fringes of the protest.
"I have kids, I have a family, and I know the value of that," Hafizi said. "These people are killing like butchers. They don't feel what they are doing and this is not right." The Conservative caucus was scheduled to end a three-day summer caucus meeting later Friday. Harper was expected to announce additional financial assistance to the region. © The Canadian Press 2006

Jewish groups support Harper
Mike De Souza, CanWest News Service
Published: Sunday, August 06, 2006
OTTAWA -- Canada's organized Jewish community is still backing Prime Minister Stephen Harper's position on the Middle East, despite recent remarks that watered down his unconditional support for Israel in its military conflict with Lebanon.
Harper told the French-language TVA network on Friday that it was becoming increasingly difficult to measure whether various actions in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict were proportional responses, since the situation had escalated into a full-blown war.Although Harper initially described the Israeli military strikes in Lebanon as a "measured" response to the actions of Hezbollah operatives, the Canada-Israel committee says it is grateful that the prime minister is still supporting Israel's right to defend itself.
"I don't think it's important to focus on one phrase or another phrase," said Marc Gold, chairperson of the committee which represents organized Jewish groups on Canada-Israeli issues. "This is a war where thousands of rockets are aimed at civilians in Israel that are raining down on Israel on an ongoing basis, where close to a million Israelis have been dislocated or are sleeping in shelters."Gold said Harper has remained constant in his assessment of the situation as a struggle between a democratic country and a terrorist organization using civilians as human shields."What I wish Canadians would understand is that Hezbollah is doing the work of Iran, and as much as we all want to see violence end, we can't forget that the long-range strategy the clearly articulated strategy both of Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah is to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth, and to kill Jews wherever they find them."But several hundred people showed up on Parliament Hill to denounce Harper's stance on Saturday at a rally organized by the Coalition of Arab Canadian Professionals and Community Associations. They accused the Harper government of supporting the Bush administration and being responsible for bombs dropped in Lebanon and Palestine.Bloc Quebecois MP Richard Nadeau, who represents the nearby Gatineau riding in the region, said Israel was using incidents like the kidnapping of soldiers to justify over-the-top military strikes."With what's happening in Gaza, it looks more like a genocide than humanitarian aid," Nadeau said at the protest. "As far as I know, in Gaza, there's one victim one group of people who are victims at present. One would only have to take a trip there to see who the victims are and see who is perpetuating this military force that is completely disproportionate."Gold, however, called Nadeau's comments reprehensible, arguing that Israel does its utmost to minimize harm to civilians.
With another major protest against Harper's stance scheduled to take place in Montreal on Sunday, one coalition of Christian Lebanese groups complained that Hezbollah has dragged Lebanon into a war. The Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council has also endorsed the Canadian government's position to insist upon strict conditions for a ceasefire.
"After all these lives that were lost, a ceasefire, unconditionally, means you are giving a new life to those people that the whole world is trying to get rid of," said Elias Bejjani, chairperson of the council. "Hezbollah will emerge as a winner, and my God, if this party emerges as a winner, or if the people of the Middle East are put under the impression that they are the winners, there will be hundreds of September 11ths all over the world and there will be a revolt in the whole area."
mdesouza@cns.canwest.com

Rice: U.N. draft alone won't fix Lebanon
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution as a first step to stop violence in the Middle East, but said it cannot solve the problems in Lebanon. Rice said the Lebanese government must extend its authority into the south so the militant Islamic group Hezbollah does not have control. She said the international community must help Lebanese forces be successful. "We're trying to deal with a problem that has been festering and brewing in Lebanon now for years and years and years," Rice said. "And so it's not going to be solved by one resolution in the Security Council."
Rice spoke to reporters near President Bush's private ranch, where he was on a 10-day vacation from the White House. With the full United Nations Security Council considering a proposal developed by the U.S. and the French, Rice was spending the weekend at the president's side.
The proposal calls for Hezbollah to stop all military operations and for Israel to stop its offensive drive against Lebanon. The proposal would allow Israel to strike back if Hezbollah were to break a cease-fire. Rice said she expects a vote on the resolution in the next two or three days.
The Lebanese parliamentary speaker, a prominent Shiite who has been negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah, rejected the plan because it did not include an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of Israeli troops.
"I know Hezbollah has said all kinds of things. I've heard, 'We should have an immediate cease-fire,' I've heard, 'We'll keep fighting,' I've heard all of those things," she said. "When this UN security council resolution is passed, we're going to know who really did want to stop the violence and who didn't."
Israel says it won't pull its troops out of the south until a significant international military force deploys in the region.
Rice said a second proposal was being drafted at the U.N. that would form an international force.
"There are things the Israelis wanted and things the Lebanese wanted, and everybody wasn't going to get everything that they wanted," Rice said. "This is the international community's effort to bring about a reasonable, equitable basis for the cessation of hostilities of the kind that are so devastating to civilian populations."
Rice said Sunday that neither side is getting all that it wants from the U.N. resolution, but both sides have an obligation to adhere to the resolution. She expects some "skirmishes" will continue for a while. Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

Syria ready for regional war: FM
Copyright © 2006 Agence France Presse.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has said that Damascus was ready for regional war and will respond "immediately" to any Israeli attack.
"We will respond to any Israeli aggression immediately," he said on his arrival in Lebanon for an Arab foreign ministers' meeting on Israel's devastating 26-day-old offensive against its northern neighbour. Asked by reporters in the main northern city of Tripoli about the possibility of a regional war, Muallem said: "Welcome to the regional war." It was the first visit by a Syrian official of his rank to Lebanon since Damascus pulled out its troops from its smaller neighbor in April 2005.

How Rice Can Succeed
By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, August 6, 2006; B07
It has been a hard stretch of diplomatic road for the Condoleezza Rice we see in public. That is the "frustrated and stressed" secretary of state who made no visible progress on the crisis in Lebanon while visiting the Middle East. But beneath that image of failure lies a strategic opening for the private policymaker Rice to exploit.
The opening has been understandably obscured by the tragic human carnage of the Israeli-Hezbollah border war and by diplomacy's habits of subterfuge. Moreover, the strategic moment is dependent on a still-to-be established willingness by Rice to break through the stereotypes that imprison President Bush's rhetoric and policy on the Middle East. I do not underestimate the difficulties involved.
But three weeks of unexpected summer warfare and the wide-ranging diplomatic consultations the fighting has sparked produced surprising new elements. The next three weeks will be an incubation period for strategic change and a defining moment for Rice's legacy at the State Department:
· Israel, deeply distrustful of Europe and international peacekeeping for the past four decades, is demanding that a strong multinational force be deployed to control Hezbollah as the condition for Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. The proposed force would be led by France -- which privately echoes the view of the stabilization force publicly voiced by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He says it must be composed of "real soldiers and not retirees who come to spend some pleasant months in Lebanon." · Europe's largest governments, including France, have quietly but clearly been rooting for Israel to dismantle Hezbollah and inflict a political defeat on Syria and Iran, the main sponsors of the Lebanese Shiite movement. While publicly arguing with American priorities in the crisis, the Europeans have tacitly encouraged Rice in her efforts to buy time for Israel to degrade Hezbollah's war-fighting capabilities.
"If there is more of an openness by Israel toward Europe and the international community, it may be because we sense more of an openness toward Israel" as Europeans and others react to a growing threat from jihadist terrorism and blackmail, notes one Israeli official.
· Rice has given U.S. Foreign Service professionals the space to construct new containment strategies for Iran (Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns) and North Korea (Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill), and those strategies have produced important U.N. Security Council resolutions and a communique by the Group of Eight supporting U.S. policy goals. "There has been a strategic click in the minds of others," says one U.S. official. "We must sustain and deepen it."
The "frustrated and stressed" description of Rice comes not only from media accounts but also from foreign officials who dealt with her on the diplomatic trip from hell. She was embarrassed when Israeli officials seemed to withhold from her news of the horrific killing of civilians in Qana and subsequently when her visit to Beirut was canceled.
Failure, however, is a relative term in diplomacy, which values the art of not making a deal while professing to seek one. Bush and Rice had no intention of pressing Israel to accept a quick cease-fire before it crippled Hezbollah. In the narrow terms of non-dealmaking, Rice succeeded on her trip.
But her task now is to persuade Bush to extend into the Middle East and Persian Gulf the active U.S. pragmatism and concern for multilateral cooperation she has nurtured elsewhere. Immediate U.S. goals should be defensive in nature and compatible with those of the European Union as well as Israel: Hezbollah cannot be allowed to emerge claiming a military victory over Israel by maintaining the status quo, and Iran cannot be allowed to use the crisis to gain new leverage in defying U.N. resolutions on its nuclear program.
Such limited goals fall far short of "a new Middle East" that would be created by regime change in Tehran and Damascus, a scenario dear to the far-right ideologues who are already railing at Rice and her aides for supposedly betraying Bush's conservative and combative instincts. It is reminiscent of the mid-1980s, when George Shultz nudged Ronald Reagan onto a different, more pragmatic course in dealing with the Soviet Union.
Rice has often been mistaken as a protege of Brent Scowcroft -- for whom she worked in the George H.W. Bush White House -- and she has praised Dean Acheson as a model secretary of state. But to navigate this crisis she should rely on the example of Shultz: He knew that his most important work was inside the White House, not in foreign lands.jimhoagland@washpost.com © 2006 The Washington Post Company

Rice: Mideast violence 'for some time to come'
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned that there would be violence in the Middle East "for some time to come" even after the adoption of a UN resolution aimed at ending the conflict.
"We're trying to deal with a problem that has been festering and brewing in Lebanon now for years and years and years, and so it's not going to be solved by one resolution in the Security Council," she told reporters Sunday. Rice said she expected the UN Security Council to take up the resolution on Monday or Tuesday, but added: "I want to emphasize it's the first step, not the only step" to halting three weeks of clashes between Israel and Hezbollah.
"I would hope that you would see very early on an end to the kind of large-scale violence, large-scale military operations," allowing for the deployment of an international force in southern Lebanon, she said. "But I can't say that you should rule out that there could be skirmishes of some kind for some time to come," she said after talks with US President George W. Bush at his nearby Texas ranch. "These things take a while to wind down.
Rice also sought to ease Lebanese concerns about the resolution after Beirut signalled that the measure must explicitly call for a full Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon. "No one wants to see Israel permanently in Lebanon. Nobody wants to do that. The Israelis don't want it, the Lebanese don't want it, so I think there is a basis here for moving forward," she said.
Rice stopped short of predicting unanimous Security Council support for the resolution, but said talks among that body's 15 members had been "good" and that Washington and Paris considered the document a good compromise. "There are things the Israelis and wanted and Lebanese wanted and not everybody was going get everything that they wanted. This is the international community's effort to bring about an equitable, reasonable basis for cessation of hostilities," she said.
Rice said she would go to the United Nations "when and if necessary" and emphasized: "We will ask everyone who has any influence with all the parties to talk to them about the importance of taking this opportunity." She said that there would be a second resolution to shape a multinational force to deploy to Lebanon to make it possible for that country's armed forces to secure the southern border with Israel. "The real situation in Lebanon is that the south has had a vacuum in which Hezbollah has been operating," she said."And the solution to this, over the next several months, is going to be to flow the authority of the Lebanese government and Lebanese forces with the help of international forces into the south so that you don't have that vacuum," she said.

Syrian minister rejects cease-fire plan
The Syrian foreign minister declared on Sunday that the U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war" and he warned his armed forces were under orders to respond immediately if Israel attacks."If Israel attacks Syria by any mean, on the ground, by air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said after emerging from a meeting with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud.
Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press.

Hezbollah rockets kill 11 in Israel
By JOSEPH PANOSSIAN, Associated Presso
Hezbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest barrage of rockets yet into northern Israel, killing 11 people, while Israeli bombardment killed 17 people in southern Lebanon as fighting only intensified despite a draft U.N. cease-fire resolution. Israeli jets also fired six missiles into Beirut's southern suburbs Sunday afternoon, Lebanese security officials said. Loud explosions shook the capital, and a column of white smoke rose over the horizon.
Hezbollah and its allies rejected the U.S.-French text, saying its terms for a halt in fighting do not address Lebanon's demands — in a signal that the nearly 4-week-old battle will burn on. Both sides appeared to be aiming to inflict maximum mutual damage in the few days before the resolution is expected to be voted on by the U.N. Security Council. Hezbollah fired a volley of 80 rockets at several Israeli towns, with one of them making a direct hit on a crowd of people at the entrance of the communal farm of Kfar Giladi. Ten people were killed outright in the explosion, and another person died a few hours later of his wounds, Israeli emergency services said — the highest toll from a rocket attack since the conflict began on July 12. Israel's Channel Two television reported that nine of those killed were reserve soldiers.A forest burst into flames from the 15-minute barrage and huge plumes of gray smoke rose into the air. Other rockets hit the nearby town of Kiryat Shemona, damaging a synagogue.
When word of the rocket strike reached the Israeli Cabinet during its weekly meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: "Lucky that we are dealing with Hezbollah today, and not in another two or three years," according to a participant in the meeting. In southern Lebanon, dozens of Israeli strikes hit communities and roads, with some villages bombed continually for half an hour, security officials said. Ground fighting also raged along a stretch of territory on the southern Lebanese border that the Israeli army has invaded.
A Hezbollah rocket blast also injured three Chinese peacekeepers on Sunday, the Chinese state media reported, citing a Chinese officer. The report not specify where the attack occurred or whether the peacekeepers had been hospitalized.
The attack came hours after China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a telephone conversation that the world body should take tangible measures to ensure the security of U.N. peacekeepers, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
The U.S.-French agreement on a resolution calling for "a full cessation of hostilities" marked a significant advance after weeks of stalled diplomacy aimed at ending the conflict. But getting the two sides — particularly Hezbollah — to sign on will likely require a greater push. Israel has said it won't halt its offensive until Hezbollah rockets are silenced.The plan also envisions a second resolution in a week or two that would authorize an international military force for the Israel-Lebanon frontier and the creation of a large buffer zone in southern Lebanon, monitored by the Lebanese army and international peacekeepers.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stressed the draft resolution was aimed at stopping the large-scale violence to allow a focus on the underlying problems in the conflict. "It's the first step, not the only step," she said at a news conference in Washington. Lebanon's parliament speaker, who represents the Shiite Islamic militant group in negotiations, said the draft resolution was unacceptable since it would leave Israeli troops in Lebanon and does not deal with Beirut's key demands — a release of prisoners held by Israel and moves to resolve a dispute over a piece of border territory. "If Israel has not won the war but still gets all this, what would have happened had they won?" Nabih Berri said. "Lebanon, all of Lebanon, rejects any talks and any draft resolution" that do not address the Lebanese demands, he said. The Lebanese government said Saturday that it objects to portions of the draft resolution and demanded some amendments, but an aide to Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said that did not mean a flat rejection.
Hezbollah's two key allies, Iran and Syria, also rejected the resolution — suggesting they back a continued fight by the guerrillas.
"The United States, which has been supporting the Zionist regime until today, has no right to enter the crisis as a mediator," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a phone conversation with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Assad said the presence of international forces with extensive power in Lebanon would cause anarchy in the country, according to a report on Ahmadinejad's official Web site. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, on his first visit to Lebanon since Damascus ended a 29-year military presence in its smaller neighbor last year, declared that the U.S.-French cease-fire plan was "a recipe for the continuation of the war" unless Israeli troops withdrew.
In a bit of saber-rattling, the former Syrian envoy to Washington also said his armed forces were under orders to respond immediately to an Israeli assault on his country, something Israel repeatedly has pledged it would not do.
"If Israel attacks Syria by any mean, on the ground, by air, our leadership ordered the armed forces to reply immediately," he said after emerging from a meeting with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud. Deployment of an international force in south Lebanon to rein in Hezbollah guerrillas is a central cornerstone of U.S.-led Western efforts for a long-term peace. Six members of the Lebanese military were killed in two Israeli airstrikes. Missiles also flattened a house in the village of Ansar, near the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, killing a man and four of his relatives, Lebanese security officials said. Another strike overnight killed three people in al-Jibbain, a village nearly three miles from the Israeli border, civil defense officials said. A rocket fired by a pilotless aircraft blasted a van carrying bread near Tyre, killing its driver, said Salam Daher, a civil defense official in the southern port city. Another person was killed in the town of Naqoura, near the border on the Mediterranean coast. In Naqoura and several villages near Tyre, residents called rescue officials to report more people trapped under the rubble of crushed buildings, but crews could not retrieve the dead because of continued bombardment.
"We don't know how many and we can't get there," Daher said. Israel also bombed two camps of a Palestinian militant group in Lebanon, the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. The group reported one person killed in the attack.
Hezbollah's long-range missile launchers are in the areas of Tyre and Sidon, but there was no indication the raging air assault of the last 24 hours has significantly eroded the group's capabilities to hit deep into Israel, said Ryszard Morczynski, a U.N. peacekeeping official in Naqoura.
Arab foreign ministers were due to gather in Beirut for a crucial meeting on Monday that could see a stormy debate over the draft U.N. resolution.
For Hezbollah, the resolution would be a tough pill to swallow, particularly language calling for the "unconditional release" of two Israeli soldiers captured by the guerrillas in a cross-border raid July 12. The abduction prompted the Israeli onslaught in Lebanon.
The Israeli army announced Sunday that it had arrested one of the Hezbollah guerrillas involved in the initial raid, in which the two soldiers were captured.
So far, at least 591 people have died in the fighting in Lebanon including 507 civilians, 34 members of the army and 50 guerrillas aknowledged dead by Hezbollah. The Israeli military says it has killed more than 400 Hezbollah guerrillas since the fighting began.
It brought the number of Israelis killed so far to 90, 44 of them killed by rocket attacks and the rest soldiers killed in the fighting.
Associated Press writer Aron Heller contributed to this report from Kfar Giladi, Israel.