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pursue a cease-fire with the UN?

Israel's Olmert: No cease-fire in Lebanon

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that no cease-fire would be forthcoming in Israel's 20-day battle with Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Olmert said that Israeli forces continued fighting in the air, from the sea and on the ground in Lebanon.

"We are determined to succeed in this struggle," he said. "We will not give up on our goal to live a life free of terror."

Olmert spoke one day after Israeli airstrikes leveled a building in the southern Lebanese town of Qana, killing at least 56 people. Under U.S. pressure, Israel called a 48-hour halt to airstrikes.

But airstrikes resumed Monday, after trucks and cars loaded with people streamed north as thousands of civilians trapped in south Lebanon's war zone for three weeks took advantage of the brief lull to escape. ...

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Israel plans to "expand and strengthen" its attack on Hezbollah, diminishing hopes that the 48-hour airstrike halt could become a longer cease-fire. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060731/ap_on_re_mi_ea/lebanon_israel_627;_ylt=Att6azbjw4h3sCMB_MzaXDkUvioA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl