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Israel to keep attacking Hezbollah: Minister

Israel will keep waging war on Hezbollah and troops will stay in southern Lebanon until a foreign force arrives, a minister said on Sunday.

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JERUSALEM: Israel will keep waging war on Hezbollah and troops will stay in southern Lebanon until a foreign force arrives, a minister said on Sunday, after the UN Security Council received a draft resolution to halt fighting.

 

Justice Minister Haim Ramon did not say if Israel accepted the draft UN Security Council resolution or not. The cabinet holds a routine meeting at 10.00 am (0700 GMT) US Assistant Secretary of State David Welch is also expected to meet senior Israeli leaders on Sunday.

 

He held talks with Lebanese leaders on Saturday on ways to end the conflict. "We must continue the fighting, continue to hit whoever we can hit from Hezbollah," Ramon told Army Radio. 

 

"We still have goals to achieve militarily." The French-US resolution calls for a "full cessation of hostilities based upon, in particular, the immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations."

 

A second resolution is envisaged a week or two after the first is adopted, setting down conditions for a permanent ceasefire and authorising an international force in the area.   

 

Israeli newspapers on Sunday quoted political sources who said the Jewish state was happy with the resolution. "We got what we wanted. The meaning of the decision is that there is no black hole or quiet vacuum. Israel will leave only when someone comes to replace her," the mass-circulation Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted a political source as saying.   

 

Lebanese Foreign Ministry official Nouhad Mahmoud said the failure of the resolution to call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces in Lebanon was a recipe for more confrontation.

 

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