A government probe in last summer's war in Lebanon accused the country's wartime leaders of "very severe failures" in their handling of the conflict, dealing a harsh blow that was sure to fuel new calls for embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced calls for his resignation in the wake of harsh findings of an official inquiry into the shortcomings of his leadership during last summer’s costly, but inconclusive, war in Lebanon.