29 July 2006 (Saturday)
- 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict:
- Israel rejects a UN call for a truce. (BBC)
- The IDF leaves the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, thus ending the Battle of Bint Jbeil. 8 Israeli soldiers and 50-70 Hezbollah militants were killed in Bint Jbeil. (Haaretz),(Ynet)
- Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah vows rocket strikes on towns in central Israel, calling it a "temporary country" and asking "When in any Arab-Israeli conflict were two million Israelis forced to flee or enter bomb shelters?" (Haaretz), (Ynet)
- Hezbollah fired a rocket on Friday, which they claim to be a new long-range missile named "Khaibar 1". The rocket matched the furthest distance that Hezbollah rockets had landed inside Israel since the conflict began on July 12. (Reuters)
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