Because Israel can, I guess. Those blue helmets must make the UN observers easy targets.
The Israelis seem to have some sort of obsessive-compulsive bombing disorder. They just *have* to bomb, somebody anybody, constantly:
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Israeli Strikes Resume After Brief Halt in Lebanon
By STEVEN ERLANGER and HELENE COOPER
JERUSALEM, July 31 — Israel continued to attack targets in Lebanon even after agreeing to a 48-hour halt to its broad bombing campaign in the face of an outcry over the air raid on Sunday that left dozens of Lebanese civilians dead.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who had pressed Israel to halt the bombing, said today that there was an “emerging consensus’’ on a peace plan and that she believed a cease-fire could be reached this week.
Despite the halt to the broad aerial campaign, Israeli bombs and rockets hit several targets today. A rocket fired by an Israeli drone plane killed a Lebanese soldier riding in a car near the city of Tyre this morning. Israeli officials apologized, saying they had believed the car was carrying a senior Hezbollah official, news services said. Israeli warplanes also conducted airstrikes this morning near the village of Taibe in southern Lebanon. Israeli officials said those attacks were in support of ground forces in the area.
Israel’s defense minister, Amir Peretz, made it clear in a speech to the Knesset today that Israel intends to “expand’’ its ground operations against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.
“If an immediate cease-fire is declared, the extremists will rear their heads anew,’’ Mr. Peretz said. “Israel will expand and strengthen its activities against the Hezbollah.’’
A spokesman for Ms. Rice, who was on her way back to Washington, said during a fueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, that the new attacks did not signal an end to the 48-hour bombing halt. ...
Carl