Special report: Israel-Lebanon Conflicts  [Video ] [Gallery]

    BEIRUT, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese government will hold a meeting on Saturday to examine a UN Security Council draft resolution which calls for an end to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Lebanese government sources said.

    The government, including two ministers from the Shiite group Hezbollah, will discuss the draft resolution in a meeting on Saturday, said the sources, without revealing further details.

    Earlier, local media cited sources as saying that the Lebanese government was "optimistic" about the draft resolution, which will be put to a vote in the UN Security Council soon.

    The draft resolution, proposed by the U.S. and France, calls for an immediate, full cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah and the deployment of Lebanese troops and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in south Lebanon along with parallel withdrawal of Israeli troops.

    The Lebanese government has urged for an immediate ceasefire and Israeli troops' pullout from Lebanon as part of the peace deal.

    The one-month-old violence, which was triggered by Hezbollah's kidnapping of two Israeli soldier on July 12, has claimed the lives of over 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians. Enditem