UITED NATIONS - Israeli bomb kills 4 UN observers

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Wednesday, 26 July 2006,

00:09 GMT 01:09 UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israeli

bomb kills UN observers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Israel had hit

Khiam a number of times earlier on Tuesday

 

 

 

Four

United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an observation

post in south Lebanon.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he was " shocked "

at the " apparently deliberate targeting " of the post. Israel has expressed

" deep regret " .

Hezbollah's leader, Hassan

Nasrallah, has vowed the group would continue its rocket attacks on Israel.

Israel earlier said it would control an area

in southern Lebanon until international forces deployed.

The force will be discussed at crisis talks to be held in Rome on Wednesday.

Observers sheltering

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be at the talks

after ending her tour of the Middle East on Tuesday.

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 UN in Lebanon says the Israeli air

force destroyed the observer post, in which four military observers were

sheltering.

It said the four, 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.

" I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently

deliberate targeting by Israeli Defence Forces of a UN Observer post in

southern Lebanon, " Mr Annan said in a statement

from Rome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5215366.stm

 

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