Israel says ‘there will not be any ceasefire’
A UN official said a meeting scheduled for yesterday on a new peacekeeping force for Lebanon had been delayed “until there is more political clarity” on the path ahead in the 20-day-old war.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at the end of a trip to Israel that a ceasefire could be achieved this week. But despite an international outcry over an air strike on Sunday that killed 54 civilians, most of them children, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said there would be no ceasefire for now.
