20:41 PDT Venezuela’s Chavez withdraws ambassador from Israel. (Ynet)
20:02 PDT The Russian Ambassador to the UN says American support for Israel has weakened the world body. (SABC News)
19:41 PDT Israeli inquiry says Qana building bombed by mistake. The Lebanese death toll at Qana has been revised downwards to 28 - from original media reports of 54 - to match Human Rights Watch tally. (Reuters/News 24)
19:33 PDT Ahmadinejad says, “Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented.” (AP/US News)
18:31 PDT Hezbollah says it won’t accept a ceasefire while a single Israeli soldier remains in Lebanon. (AP/Yahoo)
20:55 PDT Tom Gross in the Jerusalem Post: “Large sections of the international media are not only misreporting the current conflict in Lebanon. They are actively fanning the flames. The BBC has a strong claim to be the number one villain.”
19:20 PDT Yoav Stern of Haaretz reviews Hezbollah’s media releases which claim dozens of IDF soldiers killed, all shot in the back while fleeing; an Israeli ship sunk of Tyre with all hands, for which photos are unfortunately missing. And the star of the show, the spellbinding Nasrallah, who “simply is an excellent speaker”.
18:56 PDT The Belgravia Dispatch reprints an erudite comment on the origins of the Hezbollah.
Do18:31 PDT Hezbollah says it won’t accept a ceasefire while a single Israeli soldier remains in Lebanon.
Does that mean he plans on returning the hostages they have? Assuming they are still in Lebanon and alive.
Once again al-Reuters has a headline that does match up with the article. The Israelis say they would not have targeted the building had they know civilians were inside. There was no "mistake" involved. At least on the part of the Israelis.
They are seriously pissing in their pants and squirming. They seriously screwed up and miscalculated Israel's response.