Israel pounds Lebanon as UN debates resolution

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BEIRUT (AFP) - Israeli combat jets struck villages across south Lebanon, killing at least eight civilians, hours after the UN Security Council began debating a resolution to bring a halt to the 26-day war.

Lebanon swiftly rejected the Franco-US draft because it failed to call for an immediate Israeli withdrawal from its soil and has proposed an amended text, while Israel warned its offensive would last until the resolution took effect.

A day after unleashing what Lebanese police said was the heaviest bombing against the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia since the war began, Israeli combat jets were back in action Sunday with a barrage of strikes across south Lebanon.

Eight civilians were killed when missile hit houses in the village of Ansar, near the port city of Sidon, and the coastal town of Naqura near the border with Israel.

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