Fierce Last Stand: Hezbollah Fires 250 Rockets Into Israel...Israel Pummels Beirut...

Associated Press Ravi Nessman August 13, 2006 at 04:24 PM
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Israel's Cabinet became the final party to sign on to the U.N. cease-fire deal Sunday, while Israeli planes blasted Beirut and ground troops battled Hezbollah in south Lebanon seeking to batter the militant Islamic group in the hours before fighting stopped. Hezbollah hit back with its heaviest rocket barrage of the war on northern Israel.

The guns were supposed to fall silent at 7 a.m. local time Monday (midnight EDT), ending a month of combat that has killed more than 900 people.

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