Israeli warplanes early Sunday bombed two roads linking the eastern Bekaa valley with Beirut and north Lebanon, as well as two bridges in Akkar province in the north, security sources said. In the south, six civilians died and five were injured in an Israeli air raid on the town of Ansar, they said.
Early Sunday raids targeted a road near Zahle 50 kilometers east of Beirut with a second hitting a sector three kilometers to the west.
A third attack hit a road in the mountains linking Bekaa with the coast. Another aerial bombardment knocked out the road linking Ainata in the Bekaa with the Cedars in north Lebanon.
Police reported two further raids damaged bridges in Akkar, a region of north Lebanon bordering Syria.
Six more raids were carried out early Sunday against positions of the pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) at Qussaya-Kfar Zabad in the Bekaa valley.
An air-to-ground missile destroyed a house in Ansar, a village east of the port of Sidon, killing six of its occupants and wounding five others, police in the main town of south Lebanon said.
Later Israeli warplanes returned to bombard Ansar. The fighter-bombers carried out a series of raids on villages southeast of Sidon, police said.
UN Security Council resolution
Meanwhile, in a draft text for a UN Security Council resolution on ending the war in Lebanon, agreed Saturday by the United States and France, it was declared that the UN Interim Force in Lebanon would be replaced by a new force only after Israel and Lebanon reach agreement on the principles of a long-term accord.
Israel's Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Sunday, however, that despite the agreement on the draft UN resolution Israel will continue to attack Hizbullah.
The Franco-American resolution called for an "immediate cessation" of offensive operations by Hizbullah and Israel.
But it did not require Hizbullah to release two Israeli soldiers whose kidnapping on July 12 sparked the conflict. Nor did it demand that Israel withdraw its forces from parts of southern Lebanon occupied since the fighting started.
The Lebanese government was quick in rejecting the draft as "not adequate." Lebanon's Energy Minister Mohammed Fneish, a Hizbullah member, reiterated that his movement would not stop fighting until "no Israeli soldier remains inside Lebanese land."
Lebanon wants a more explicit call for Israeli troops to be withdrawn. Their presence is "a recipe for more confrontation," said acting U.N. ambassador Nouhad Mahmoud.
