Lebanon Says Rice Unwelcome
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Courtesy Of: IslamOnline.net
http://islamonline.net
Sun., Jul 30, 2006

Beirut--With the bodies of slain children and women being dug out from under the rubble of buildings pounded by Israel in the southern village of Qana, Lebanon told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday, July 30, she would be unwelcome in the country without an immediate ceasefire.

"There is no place on this sad morning for any discussion other than an immediate and unconditional ceasefire as well as an international investigation into the Israeli massacres in Lebanon," Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told a news conference in Beirut, reported Reuters.

"Targeting this innocent village is unacceptable," he said.

Siniora called on the international community an Arab countries "To stand united in the face of the Israeli war criminals."

"The persistence of Israel in its heinous crimes against our civilians will not break the will of the Lebanese people."

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 55 vivilians, mostly children, in Qana, the bloodiest single attack during Israel's 19-day war on lebanon.

Qana was the site of an Israeli bombing of a UN base on April 18, 1996, that killed 105 people who had taken refuge there during Israel's "Grapes of Wrath" offensive.

Hundreds of people, mostly Lebanese civilians, have been killed in Israeli attacks since July 12.