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Dear Mullah,

An Israeli soldier writes words of the Israeli national anthem on shells at a military staging area outside the northen settlement of Fasuta. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched a new round of diplomacy in the Middle East in a bid to end the 18-day-old Lebanon conflict, as Israel flatly rejected UN pleas for a humanitarian truce and unleashed another wave of strikes.(AFP/Denis Sinyakov)

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Hezbullah taxi being unloaded

Lebanese workers unload a vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross at the port in Beirut. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel in a new bid to end the 18-day-old Lebanon conflict, as Israel launched a deadly new wave of strikes after flatly rejecting a UN plea for a truce to allow in humanitarian aid.(AFP/Oussama Ayoub)