Fierce fighting was raging at the border today as Israeli troops moved deeper into Lebanon to besiege the biggest town close to the border – Bint Jbail, nicknamed the “capital of the resistance.”

Lebanon seeks an immediate ceasefire in the nearly two-week old Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah in the country’s south, Lebanon’s ambassador to Japan said today.

An Israeli soldier today shot and wounded a deaf Israeli bus passenger whom he suspected was a Palestinian suicide bomber, the latest case in which soldiers have wounded or killed people they mistakenly identified as militants.