RECENTLY: four UN observers were killed in an Israeli air strike; the representatives (from Austria, Canada, China and Finland) had taken shelter in a bunker under the post after it was earlier shelled 14 times by Israeli artillery. A rescue team was also shelled as it tried to clear the rubble.
More than 380 Lebanese and 42 Israelis have died in nearly two weeks of conflict in Lebanon, which began after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on 12 July.
# The Israeli army said it had killed a senior Hezbollah commander, Abu Jaafar, in fighting in southern Lebanon
# Earlier the UN said Israeli forces were now in control of the town of Bint Jbeil after fierce fighting and were moving on the village of Yaroun to the south
# Israel resumed air raids on Beirut, with explosions heard in southern suburbs - a Hezbollah stronghold
# Hezbollah fired more Katyusha rockets into Israel, killing a 15-year-old Arab-Israeli girl in the northern Israeli village of Maghar and striking Haifa with a large salvo
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 05:10 GMT
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215366.stm
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