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“Hizbollah Rockets kills 15 in Israel”
Deadliest rocket barrage of war kills 15 in Israel
By Nadim Ladki 35 minutes ago
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah rockets killed 12 soldiers and at least three civilians in Israel](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Israel) on Sunday, the deadliest day of the war for Israel, as Lebanon rejected a draft U.N. resolution to end the 26-day-old conflict.
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Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon killed at least 19 civilians and a Lebanese soldier.
In the Israeli village of Kfar Giladi, a rocket hit a group of Israeli reservists called up for the Lebanon offensive. Medics said 12 were killed and dozens were wounded.
Soldiers near the scene held their heads and one wept as a military ambulance pulled away. Helicopters landed nearby to fly the badly wounded to hospitals further from the war front.
“I don’t recall so many dead ever. This is terrible,” said Ron Valensi, head of the upper Galilee municipal council and a resident of Kfar Giladi, speaking on Channel 2 Television.
More Hizbollah rockets hit the northern city of Haifa, killing at least three people and wounding up to 121, medics said. A police commander told Israel Radio that a rocket slammed into two adjacent houses, causing them to partly collapse.
Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri said his country rejected the U.S.-French draft Security Council resolution because it would let Israeli forces stay on Lebanese soil.
Berri, a Shi’ite politician who has been the main channel between Hizbollah and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, said the draft ignored the Beirut government’s seven-point plan calling for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the return of all displaced civilians among other things.
“All of Lebanon rejects any resolution that is outside these seven points,” Berri told a news conference.
Lebanon submitted an amendment to the Security Council calling for an Israeli withdrawal to be added to the resolution.
The Syrian state news agency said President Bashar al-Assad told U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Kofi+Annan) by telephone on Sunday that that “any decision taken without a Lebanese consensus will complicate matters and deepen instability.”
SMIRMISHES EXPECTED
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Condoleezza+Rice) said that agreeing on a resolution would not end all fighting. “I would hope that you would see very early on an end to large-scale violence,” she said, but did not rule out “skirmishes for some time to come.”
Hizbollah, backed by Syria](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Syria) and Iran](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Iran), has killed 58 Israeli soldiers and 36 civilians in the conflict, sparked when its men seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.
The Israeli army said on Sunday it had captured one of the Hizbollah fighters who took part in the seizure of the soldiers.
At least 759 people have been killed in Lebanon during the war, including 16 overnight and on Sunday in the bombing of five southern villages.
Two civilians died when an Israeli air strike hit a pickup truck ahead of a U.N. aid convoy heading for the southern city of Tyre, U.N. sources said. A Lebanese soldier was killed in an air raid near Tyre and another civilian in a strike inside it.
Hizbollah announced that three more of its fighters had been killed, bringing its declared toll of deaths to 52. Lebanese security sources estimate about 90 Hizbollah deaths in the war.
Beirut was rattled by an air raid in the Shi’ite-dominated southern suburbs, witnesses said. And the Bekaa Valley was hit by several air raids, one near a Lebanese army base.
U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon said a mortar round fired by Hizbollah wounded three Chinese members of the force.
Hizbollah said its rocket attack on Haifa, using Raad 2 missiles, was a response to continued Israeli bombing, particularly the strikes on Beirut.
ISRAEL FAVOURABLE TO DRAFT
Israel views the U.N. draft favorably, a senior government official and Israeli media said, noting that it allowed Israel to respond to Hizbollah attacks after a truce and did not order Israel to withdraw its 10,000 soldiers from southern Lebanon.
Israel wants its troops to remain until an international force can take over. Hizbollah says it will keep fighting until Israel stops bombing Lebanon and withdraws all its forces.
The draft was hammered out in negotiations between the United States, Israel’s main ally, and France, touted as leader of the anticipated international force for Lebanon.
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Israel would keep attacking Hizbollah targets in Lebanon and its soldiers would stay there until the international force arrived.
“We must continue the fighting, continue to hit whoever we can hit from Hizbollah,” Ramon told Army Radio.
Lebanon will seek support for its position from Arab foreign ministers due to meet in Beirut on Monday. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem, arriving by land a day early, reiterated that Syria would respond if Israel attacks it.
The war coincides with an Israeli military offensive in the southern Gaza Strip](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Gaza+Strip) to recover another captured soldier.
An air strike killed one Palestinian in the strip on Sunday, bringing to at least 167 the number of Palestinians killed in the campaign, more than half of them civilians. (Additional reporting by Beirut, Jerusalem and United Nations](http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=United
Nations) bureaux)