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8月3日付ロイター電は「ヒズボラロケットはイスラエルで8人を殺す」として、イスラエルのレバノン侵攻による戦闘の模様を大略次のように伝えた。
ヒズボラを殲滅するためのイスラエルの地上と空からの作戦にもかかわらず、ヒズボラ・ゲリラはロケット弾でイスラエル人8人を殺した。
レバノンのシニオーラ首相は、戦争でレバノンでは900人が死亡、3,000人が負傷、犠牲者の3分の1が12才未満の子どもであり、100万人のレバノン人（４分の１の人口）が避難し、生活基盤が破壊された、と語った。
イスラエルはヒズボラに手ひどい打撃を与えたとしているが、ヒズボラは引き続きロケットを浴びせ続けている。水曜日には、231発のミサイルの記録的集中砲火で、1名を殺し数十人を負傷させた。
39人の兵士を含め、66人のイスラエル人が紛争で死亡した。うち2人は木曜日の戦闘で死亡した。レバノンの治安筋によると、これまで80人のヒズボラ戦士が死亡した。イスラエルの推計300-400人を優に下まわる。
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Hizbollah rockets kill 8 in Israel（Reuters）
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-03T155240Z_01_L30823603_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-1.xml&src=080306_1204_TOPSTORY_hizbollah_kills_8
Thu Aug 3, 2006 11:53am ET
By Andrew Marshall
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah guerrillas killed eight people in Israel in a rocket barrage on Thursday despite an intensive Israeli ground and air campaign to wipe them out, as world powers struggled to end the 23-day-old war.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the war had killed 900 people in Lebanon and wounded 3,000, with a third of the casualties children under 12. He said a million Lebanese, a quarter of the population, had been displaced and infrastructure devastated. The Reuters tally of Lebanon deaths is at least 683.
Hizbollah has continued to unleash rockets despite Israeli assertions that the guerrilla group has been dealt a heavy blow by the war. On Wednesday, a record barrage of 231 missiles killed one person and wounded scores.
Sixty-six Israelis have been killed in the conflict, including 39 soldiers, two of whom died in fighting on Thursday. A Lebanese security source said 80 Hizbollah fighters had been killed so far -- well below the Israeli estimate of 300-400.
The United States, France and Britain hope for a U.N. Security Council resolution within a week that would call for a truce and maybe strengthen existing U.N. peacekeepers until a more robust force can be formed, U.N. officials said.
"I'm now hopeful we will have such a resolution down very shortly and agreed within the next few days," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said. "The purpose of that will be to bring about an immediate ceasefire and then put in place the conditions for the international force to come in."
But splits between the United States and France, a possible leader of the new force, over the timing of a ceasefire have complicated diplomatic efforts to end the fighting.
France's U.N. ambassador said he was less confident that a Security Council resolution could be adopted within days.
"Yesterday morning I was confident that we could have a resolution adopted in the coming days, but by the end of the day I was less confident," Jean-Marc de la Sabliere said.
The Lebanon war, launched after Hizbollah snatched two Israeli soldiers in a raid across the border on July 12, has coincided with an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip to recover another captured soldier and halt Palestinian rocket fire.
Israeli forces killed five Palestinian gunmen and three civilians, including a 10-year-old boy, in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses said. Israel's offensive in the Strip, which it quit last year, has cost at least 161 Palestinian lives.
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Israeli aircraft launched strikes on 70 targets in southern Lebanon and Beirut overnight.
Israeli jets bombed Hizbollah-dominated suburbs of Beirut for the first time in days and hit a bridge in the northern Akkar region, as well as targets in the eastern Bekaa Valley and roads near the Syrian border, a Lebanese security source said.
Planes repeatedly bombed targets around the southern town of Nabatiyeh and shelling cut a road in the southern Bekaa Valley. Heavy Israeli air strikes and shelling also hit the area around the southern village of Blat, north of Marjayoun.
Israel is expanding the ground war in southern Lebanon. Seven brigades, or up to 10,000 troops, were fighting Hizbollah on Thursday, Israeli army radio said.
The army has carved out a "security zone" of 20 villages in south Lebanon up to six km (four miles) from the border and will stay until an international force arrived, Israeli TV said.
U.N. peacekeepers of the UNIFIL force said the Israelis had made two new incursions into Lebanon in the past 24 hours and kept their hold of five other areas previously seized. Lebanese security sources said Hizbollah fighters attacked Israeli units using anti-tank rockets, mortars and assault rifles.
An Israeli inquiry into Sunday's bombing of Qana, where up to 54 Lebanese civilians died, said the military made a mistake, but accused Hizbollah of using civilians as human shields.
Amnesty International said the probe was inadequate.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in remarks published on Thursday he expected a U.N. vote on a truce next week.
He said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not expect a truce to end fighting in Lebanon in the next few days.
The United States and France, diplomats said, are ironing out differences on an initial resolution calling for a truce, a buffer zone and the disarmament of Hizbollah.
But Paris has insisted it will not send troops without a truce and an agreement in principle on the framework for a long-term peace deal by Israel, Hizbollah and the Beirut government. Washington wants a force as soon as fighting stops.
Once fighting ended, talks would begin at the U.N. on a second resolution for a permanent ceasefire all combatants could accept and authorizing an international force in the south.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, on a visit to Damascus, said after meeting President Bashar al-Assad that Syria indicated it was willing to "play a positive role" in resolving the crisis.
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