The United Nations has decided to remove unarmed observers from their posts along the Israeli-Lebanese border, moving them in with the peacekeeping force in the area, a spokesman said today.

Israel’s prime minister expressed “deep regret” today over the killing of UN peacekeepers in an Israeli airstrike, but rejected UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s charge that the bombing of the UN position was apparently deliberate.

In a phone call to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Israel’s prime minister expressed “deep regret” today over the killing of UN peacekeepers in an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon.

An Israeli bomb destroyed a United Nations observer post on the border in southern Lebanon, today, killing four peacekeepers.

A UN observation post was hit by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon tonight and there were casualties, a UN spokesman said.