BEIJING, July 17 --
The Lebanese President, Emile Lahoud, has accused the United Nations Security
Council of delaying intervention to stop Israel's violence in Lebanon. This came
as Israeli forces launched more ground-to-ground missiles and airstrikes towards
Lebanon on Sunday.
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TV grab shows Lebanese President, Emile Lahoud (L)speaks to
the journalists on July 16, 2006. (CCTV
Photo)
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On Sunday, the Lebanese President, Emile
Lahoud, said the postponement of the Security Council's meeting is giving Israel
extra time to make Lebanon surrender to its conditions.
However, Lahoud vowed not to bend to
Israeli pressure.
TV grab shows the fuel tanks exploded. Sources at
Beirut airport, which has been closed since Thursday, said Israeli
aircraft fired rockets at fuel tanks. (CCTV
Photo) |
Emile Lahoud said: "Unfortunately, what's
happening is that the UN Security Council had a meeting and then postponed
action, believing that by doing this there would come a time that the Lebanese
will surrender. Stop the violence and arrange a ceasefire, and then after that
we'll be ready to discuss all matters."
Israel waged massive air raids and imposed
a sea blockade on Lebanon in response to rocket attacks by Hizbollah militants
who kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in the Israeli city
of Haifa on Wednesday.
In Lebanon's southern port city of Tyre,
sixteen people were killed. Many of them died in an attack on a building used by
rescue workers.
A separate Israeli strike killed eight
Canadians in a Lebanese town on the border with Israel.
Sources at Beirut airport, which has been
closed since Thursday, said Israeli aircraft fired rockets at fuel tanks.
They also struck again at the main road
between Beirut and Damascus in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
Photo dated on May 4th, 2006 shows a file photo of
Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. (Xinhua/AFP
Photo) | Hezbollah
vows to take on Israel
Hezbollah leader,
Hassan Nasrallah, has said his fighters are fully armed and more than ready to
take on any Israeli ground invasion.
Nasrallah spoke in a televised broadcast
on Sunday, asserting that the fight against Israel had only just began. The
leader said that the five-day-attack has inflicted no real harm on the Hezbollah
group, and that his fighters have every right to resistance. He declared that
Hezbollah's fight is not just for itself or for Lebanon, but for the whole Arab
world.
(Source: CCTV.com)
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