U.N. To Debate Mideast Peace Plan
Sunday's Death Toll: 15 Israelis, 14 Lebanese, 3 Alleged Hezbollah Guerrillas
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Play CBS Video Video Attacks Don't Rattle Israel In the port city of Haifa, three people were killed and a dozen people injured after a Hezbollah rocket hit a communal farm. Allen Pizzey reports on this attack and others that have hit Israel.
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Video Lebanon Rejects Ceasefire Plan A day after the U.S. and France drafted a resolution calling for a Mideast cease-fire, Lebanon rejected that plan because they said it didn't call for an Israeli troop withdrawal. Lee Cowan reports.
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Video Mideast Peace Plan Debate Tony Guida reports from the United Nations in New York on what the draft resolution for the Mideast conflict might achieve.
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Katyusha rockets are fired from the outskirts of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre into Israel on August 6, 2006. (ARANDA/AFP/Getty)
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Smoke rises from Israeli bombardment south of the Palestinian refugee camp Rachidiyye, 3 miles south of the port city of Tyre southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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An Israeli soldier, wounded in a rocket attack by Hezbollah in the communal farm of Kfar Giladi, is evacuated to Rambam hospital in the city of Haifa, northern Israel Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Ten people, nine of them reserve soldiers were killed in the attack. (AP Photo)
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Israeli soldiers fire mortars towards southern Lebanon from near the Israeli Lebanese border, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. (AP)
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A woman reacts after three of her relatives die in a rocket attack in the town of Arab el Aramsheh in northern Israel, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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Photo Essay Crisis In Lebanon Israel and Hezbollah exchange attacks across Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
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The phased-in cease-fire plan, says CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk, would also give the Lebanese army the job of protecting the border with Israel. The U.N., says Falk, will also be discussing an amendment presented by Lebanon Sunday which would require U.N. peacekeeping troops to hand over control of border territories to the Lebanese army within 72 hours of a ceasefire.
"The resolution is not dead in the water," says Falk, "but it needs some diplomatic life support and perhaps some revisions which take into account the Lebanese government position, to get a positive vote at the U.N."
Sunday, Hezbollah fired its deadliest rocket barrage to date, killing 15 Israelis, among them 12 soldiers heading for battle in Lebanon, and pounding Haifa, Israel's third largest city.
Three Israeli civilians were killed and dozens wounded in the Sunday attack on Haifa. Flames shot from damaged homes as firefighters tried to rescue panicked residents.
Israel hit back. Israeli warplanes attacked Beirut's southern suburbs at daybreak Monday, renewing bombardment of the Hezbollah stronghold a day after guerrilla rockets killed 15 Israelis in northern Israel.
The sound of four loud explosions in a spate of 20 minutes from the southern suburbs and the roar of raiding jets shook the Lebanese capital. The missiles kicked up smoke and dust in the sky.
Earlier on Sunday, warplanes attacked the Lebanese town of Qana and near the port of Tyre and destroyed the launchers that fired rockets on Haifa, the army said. Israeli ground forces destroyed seven long-range rocket launchers in the area of Tyre on Sunday, the military said. They encountered Hezbollah guerrillas and killed three.
Israel struck hard across Lebanon Sunday, killing 14 Lebanese, including five members of one family crushed in their home by an air strike. Warplanes attacked near Beirut and in southern Lebanon, where some villages were bombed continually for a half-hour, security officials said.
Both sides appeared to take advantage of the days before a cease-fire resolution, formulated by the U.S. and France, is put to a vote in the U.N. Security Council. The plan envisions a second resolution in a week or two that would authorize an international military force and creation of a buffer zone in south Lebanon.
Arab League foreign ministers are to meet in Beirut on Monday for a hastily convened session.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, speaking in Cairo, said the gathering "is a clear message to the world to show the Arab solidarity with the Lebanese people and in support of their demands."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called the measure "the first step, not the only step," at a news conference in Washington. Israel has not commented, except to say the draft is important.
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While Hezbollah has not issued an outright rejection of the plan, its two main allies said it was without merit because it did not call for an immediate Israeli withdrawal, among other demands.
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