Bravo the UN! Bravo the Lebanese government. At last somebody is talking sense!
From Al Jazeera Saturday 19 August 2006
The UN has said that Israel's commando raid in eastern Lebanon on Saturday violated the UN-brokered truce that halted the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said that he was "deeply concerned" by the violation of the ceasefire.
A spokesman for Annan said in a statement: "The secretary-general is deeply concerned about a violation by the Israeli side of the cessation of hostilities as laid out in Security Council resolution 1701."
The statement from the UN comes after the Lebanese threatened to halt the deployment of troops to the south of Lebanon if the violation was not recognised.
From Al Jazeera Sunday 20 August 2006
The Lebanese government, in an unprecedented move, has warned Hezbollah against violating the UN-brokered truce.
In an implicit warning to the militia, Elias Murr, Lebanon's defence minister, said on Sunday that anyone who violated a cease-fire deal by firing rockets into Israel from Lebanon would be arrested and tried by a military court.
"Any violation ... any rocket that would give Israel a justification [to hit Lebanon] will be treated harshly," Murr told a press conference.
"It will be considered as direct collaboration with the enemy," Murr said, adding that those responsible "will be tried and referred to a military tribunal".
