National March on Washington, Sat., August 12th -- and -- Annan Urges Lebanon Actin 'Now'
NATIONAL EMERGENCY MARCH ON WASHINGTON!
Defend the People of Palestine and Lebanon!
Stop the U.S.-Israeli War!
Saturday, August 12
12 Noon
at the White House
-From Iraq to Lebanon to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime!
-Stop U.S. Aid to Israel!
-Support the Palestinian People's Right to Return!
-Money for Jobs and Education, Not for War and Occupation!
Initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA), and the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation.
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Annan Urges Lebanon Action 'Now'
From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5229058.stm
Annan urges Lebanon action 'now'
The UN secretary general has called on Security Council members to take urgent action after 54 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli attack on Sunday.
Kofi Annan spoke at an emergency meeting on the "tragic" events in Qana.
He asked council members to put aside differences and call for an immediate ceasefire - which is opposed by the US.
More than 30 children died in the Qana attack - the deadliest Israeli raid since hostilities began on 12 July when two Israeli soldiers were seized.
The strike has drawn strong international condemnation and, correspondents say, given a new urgency to diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.
The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has expressed regret at the killing of civilians in Qana, but said he would not call an end to the bombardment of Lebanon.
He is reported to have told US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Israel needs 10-14 days to press its offensive.
Why have they attacked one- and two-year-old children and defenceless women?
Qana survivor
Hezbollah militants who captured the soldiers in a cross- border raid have vowed to retaliate.
Several Katyusha rockets hit the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shemona on Sunday, wounding several people, in what residents described as the worst day so far.
Lebanon's health minister says about 750 people - mainly civilians - have been killed by Israeli action.
A total of 51 Israelis, including at least 18 civilians, have been killed in the conflict.
Israel's military asked United Nations observers in southern Lebanon to evacuate two more villages - Ramyah and Ayta ash-Shab - before sunset, but they were unable to do so, Mr Annan told the Security Council.
'Human shields'
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora denounced Israel's "heinous crimes against civilians", in the wake of the Qana strike that killed displaced civilians sheltering in a basement.
He said his government would not conduct any talks until Israel had halted its attacks - prompting the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel a visit to Beirut and return to Washington
Many countries condemned the attack, and France has circulated a draft resolution calling for an immediate end to the fighting.
"Action is needed now before many more children, women and men become casualties of a conflict over which they have no control," Mr Annan told the council.
"I'm deeply dismayed that my earlier calls for immediate cessation of hostilities were not heard, with the result that innocent lives continue to be taken and innocent civilians continue to suffer."
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Lebanese envoy Nouhad Mahoud criticised the UN for not taking action against Israel - which was "committing atrocities against humanity".
But Israel's ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, said an immediate ceasefire would help the militants.
"I am beseeching you not to play into their hands, not to provide them with what they are seeking while sacrificing their own people as human shields and as victims," Mr Gillerman said.
The US supports the Israeli argument. US ambassador John Bolton said Washington remained opposed to an immediate ceasefire - it was working towards a permanent solution.
But British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said on Sunday the situation could not continue and that all hostilities ought to cease once a UN resolution was adopted.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson, who is travelling with Mr Blair in the US, said the prime minister accepted that Qana had "changed things".