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Israel will keep waging war on Hezbollah and troops will stay in southern Lebanon until a foreign force arrives, a minister said on Sunday.
Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST
Justice Minister Haim Ramon did not say if
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
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.
Lebanese Foreign Ministry official Nouhad Mahmoud said the failure of the resolution to call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces in