A Lebanese crowd broke into the UN headquarters in the Lebanese capital on
Sunday following a deadly Israeli air raid which killed more than 50 people in
south Lebanon.
The crowd threw stones at the office in the heart of Beirut, and some of them
broke into the building, a local television said.
Lebanese parliament head Nadia Berri told the pan-Arab al-Jazeera television
that it was imperative for the United Nations to ask for a ceasefire and form an
investigation committee to probe the killing in the southern Lebanese village of
Qana.
Earlier, Israeli aircraft attacked Qana, which Israel terms as Hezbollah's
rocket launch site, and killed more than 50 people, most of them children and
women.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora condemned the Israeli airstrike, saying
"such a heinous crime against our civilians will not break the will of the
Lebanese people."
Israel launched its military offensives against Lebanese Hezbollah on July 12
in response to the group's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border
attack.
More than 600 Lebanese and more than 50 Israelis have been killed in the
fighting.
