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July 31, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206275,00.html

U.S.: Hizballah Holding a Million Israeli Civilians Hostage

[Fox News] Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said Sunday: "Hizballah has to understand that this conflict isn't going to come to an end until it puts down its arms. What Hizballah has done over the last 2.5 weeks is violate international law by crossing the blue line [Israel-Lebanon border]. It has held a million Israeli citizens, civilians, hostage to the 4,000 rocket attacks that it's rained down on the northern third of the country." "An immediate cease-fire would leave Hizballah in place threatening northern Israel....The answer has to be a permanent and durable cease-fire....We have to be responsible in the way we put this cease-fire together so that fighting doesn't resume days or weeks hence."

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