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Aug 12, 8:29 PM (ET)
By LAUREN FRAYER and SAM F. GHATTAS
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - More Israeli tanks and soldiers surged into southern Lebanon on Saturday, reaching the Litani River and engaging in some of the heaviest ground combat of the monthlong war just hours after the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire plan.
The leader of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah grudgingly joined Lebanon's government in accepting the U.N. resolution but vowed to keep fighting until Israeli troops leave and hand over territory to a muscular U.N. peacekeeping force intended to separate the antagonists.
Lebanese men inspect the destruction next to a collapsed apartment building in a Hezbollah stronghold suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, that was destroyed following Israeli air strikes. Israeli warplanes struck several targets in north, east and south Lebanon early Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding several others. The attacks came just hours after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an end to the war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Israel also signaled its intention to approve the plan, at a Cabinet meeting Sunday, and a senior official predicted fighting would stop Monday morning, but there was no slowing in the bloodshed.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced early Sunday that a cease-fire would take effect at 8 a.m. Beirut time Monday (1 a.m. EDT), saying both Israeli and Lebanese leaders agreed to the start time. In his statement, Annan called for an immediate halt to the fighting.