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□イスラエルが新しい作戦に着手:部隊と装甲車両のコンボイをレバノン領内30キロまで前進させる(英文記事)
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Israel launches new operation: troops and armoured columns to advance 30 km inside Lebanon
By: fromPоrtugal on: 09.08.2006 [22:40 ] (152 reads)
Israel has launched a new operation in south Lebanon, with troops and armoured columns moving across the border.
The security cabinet authorised a push towards the Litani River - which lies up to 30km (18 miles) into Lebanon.
A political source said the expanded offensive could last 30 days.
Fresh Israeli push into Lebanon
Israel has launched a new operation in south Lebanon, with troops and armoured columns moving across the border.
An Israeli army spokesman said the aim was to quell rocket fire by Hezbollah from the town of Khiam, which has already seen heavy fighting.
The move did not mark the start of a wider push approved by the government earlier on Wednesday, he added.
The security cabinet authorised a push towards the Litani River - which lies up to 30km (18 miles) into Lebanon.
Israel says the objective of the planned wider offensive is to destroy Hezbollah positions in the region and prevent the group from firing rockets into Israel.
Nine ministers voted in favour of the new offensive, and three abstained, amid reports that large Israeli casualties were feared.
Earlier in the day, there were more fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanese villages along the border.
The Israeli army has confirmed that 15 of its soldiers died in Wednesday's operations. It said 40 Hezbollah guerrillas were killed.
As the fighting continued, Hezbollah's leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, commented publicly for the first time on the draft security council resolution on the crisis drawn up by France and the US, describing it as "unfair and unjust".
He re-iterated Hezbollah's support for the Lebanese government's plan to deploy the Lebanese army in the south, but expressed reservations about an international force.
In negotiations at the UN, attempts to reword the resolution - to take in Lebanese and Arab League demands for an immediate Israeli withdrawal - have so far failed.
The BBC's Bridget Kendall in New York the mood at the UN is downcast, amid possible signs that both the French and Americans are beginning to worry the fragile diplomacy could collapse.
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Israel to expand war
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel moved on Wednesday to expand its ground offensive in Lebanon, and Hizbollah's leader vowed to turn it into a graveyard for Israeli troops and unleash more rockets on the city of Haifa.
With world powers divided on a U.N. resolution to try to end the war, the Israeli army said 15 of its soldiers and 40 Hizbollah guerrillas had been killed on one of the bloodiest days of fighting in the 4-week-old conflict.
Israeli television said the bodies of Iranian Revolutionary Guards had been found among guerrillas slain in southern Lebanon. There was no independent confirmation, and Al Jazeera television said Hizbollah had denied the report.
"You won't be able to stay in our land, and if you come in, we'll force you out, we will turn our precious southern land into a graveyard for the invading Zionists," Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
"We want an end to all the aggression but if there must be a showdown, then we welcome a showdown in the field."
He warned Arab residents of Haifa to leave to avoid being hurt by Hizbollah rocket attacks on the Israeli city.
Israeli television and Lebanese witnesses said armored columns were moving into southern Lebanon under cover of intensive artillery fire. The Israeli army said the push was to quell Hizbollah rocket fire from the town of al-Khiam and would not go beyond the current area of military operations.
Witnesses said the Israeli forces had pushed about 10 km (6 miles) into south Lebanon by early on Thursday, further forward than they have reached before in the conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's security cabinet earlier authorized a plan to send troops further, possibly to the Litani river, up to 20 km (13 miles) from the border. A political source said the expanded offensive could last 30 days.
A State Department spokesman said Israel had a right to defend itself but "must take the utmost care" to avoid civilian casualties.
Western diplomats said Israeli officials had assured them the army was prepared to halt the wider campaign within days if an agreement was reached at the United Nations.
A Tel Aviv University poll showed 93 percent of Israelis believed the campaign in Lebanon was justified, and 91 percent backed the air strikes even if they destroyed Lebanese infrastructure and inflicted suffering on civilians.
"COSMETICS"
Diplomats are still working on a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the war but no Security Council vote seems imminent.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch held talks in Beirut as part of efforts to win agreement for such a resolution, but appeared to have made little headway.
"All he is carrying is cosmetics for what remains a very ugly resolution," Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key Shi'ite politician and Hizbollah ally, said after talks with Welch, who also met Prime Minister Fouad Siniora twice.
Lebanon wants an immediate ceasefire and a quick pullout of Israeli troops from the south, where it says 15,000 Lebanese soldiers backed by U.N. peacekeepers can move in.
Nasrallah said an initial draft resolution that did not call for an immediate Israeli withdrawal was "unjust and oppressive and gives the Israelis more than they wanted and demanded."
The United States and France differ on when an international force, expected to be led by France, should move in and when Israel should withdraw. Israel says it will only withdraw when a foreign force and the Lebanese army take over to keep Hizbollah at bay, and the United States backs this position.
"The operating principle is that you don't want to leave a vacuum in southern Lebanon," McCormack said. "You don't hand the keys back to the terrorists who started all of this."
French President Jacques Chirac threatened to introduce his own resolution if no compromise was reached but said he hoped there could still be an agreement.
"I can't imagine that there would be no solution ... which would be the most immoral result, that we accept the current situation and that we abandon an immediate ceasefire," he said.
Israel's Channel 10 television quoted diplomatic sources as saying dead Iranian fighters had been identified in Lebanon by documents found on their bodies, but gave no further details on how many were discovered or when.
Iran, like fellow Hizbollah patron Syria, insists it gives only moral support to the Shi'ite guerrilla group.
At least 1,005 people in Lebanon and more than 100 Israelis have been killed in bloodshed which erupted when Hizbollah seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.
Israeli forces pushed deeper into parts of Lebanon despite fierce Hizbollah resistance, Lebanese security sources said.
The sources said four Israeli soldiers had been killed in a rocket attack in the village of Aita al-Shaab and seven more died when Hizbollah blew up a booby-trapped house near the village of Debel, 5 km (3 miles) from the border.
Israeli planes bombed targets across Lebanon. Five people died in a raid in the Bekaa Valley town of Mashghara, medics said. Two people, including an 11-year-old boy, were killed in air strikes on a Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon.
More rockets hit northern Israel and four landed in the occupied West Bank. No casualties were reported.
Israel is also pressing on with an offensive in the Gaza Strip after a soldier was seized in June. A helicopter gunship fired into a Palestinian militant training camp in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing two gunmen and a girl.
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