26 July 2006 (Wednesday)
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
- UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.(BBC NEWS)
- Four United Nations observers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on an observation post in south Lebanon.(BBC NEWS)
- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in the Middle East.(Sky), (BBC NEWS)
- the battle of Bint Jbail intensifies.(Ynetnews)
- 12 Israeli soldiers were killed today as IDF forces attempt to gain control of a key hilltop in southern Lebanon. (AP)
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