Israel pounded targets across Lebanon on Sunday, a day before a U.N.
cease-fire resolution was to go into effect.
Before dawn, Israeli warplanes bombed a bridge near the northern town of
Halba in the remote Akkar region bordering Syria, destroying the bridge and
wounding two people, local television and security officials said.
In eastern Lebanon, the area of Ali Nahri in Bekaa Valley near the border
with Syria was also raided by Israeli planes.
A woman and her three children were killed in another air raid targeting
areas near the southern coastal city of Tyre, the Lebanese television LBC
reported.
At Aita al-Fukhar in the western Bekaa Valley, an Israeli drone fired a
missile on a Lebanese army vehicle, wounding two of its occupants, witnesses and
security officials said.
The latest air strikes came a day before a U.N.-imposed cease-fire was to
halt the month long fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Saturday that the prime ministers
of Lebanon and Israel have agreed on an end to hostilities as of 0500 GMT on
Monday.
On Friday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701,
calling for an end to the bloodshed and for the deployment of a 15,000-strong
international peacekeeping force to prevent further conflict.
More than four weeks of conflict have left more than 1,100 dead, mainly in
Lebanon.