JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel has rejected a United Nations request
for a three-day ceasefire in Lebanon. The UN wanted a time-out to
deliver humanitarian supplies and to allow civilians to leave the
war zone.
A government spokesman says Israel already has opened safe
corridors across Lebanon for such shipments and accuses Hezbollah
of blocking them to create a humanitarian crisis.
Israeli planes targeted bridges in southern and eastern Lebanon
in new airstrikes Saturday. They destroyed one in a resort area on the
Syrian border. This comes a day after Hezbollah used a new type of
rocket to strike deeper into Israeli territory.