 More than 40 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a building near the southern Lebanese town of Qana, reports say. Initial accounts say families had been sheltering in the basement of the site, which was demolished. Rescuers said many of the casualties were children. Reporters spoke of people screaming in grief and anger amid the wreckage. Israel said Hezbollah militants bore responsibility for using the village as a rocket-launching site. The strike comes as the Shia militia fight Israeli forces following a new incursion into southern Lebanon. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to meet Israeli and Lebanese leaders after returning to the region for the second time in a week. Talks will raise a possible new UN Security Council resolution that would enable the deployment of peacekeepers. ...
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