No letup in Israeli-Hezbollah clashes
Peres: "too early" for cease-fire
April 15, 1996
Web posted at: 9:20 a.m. EDT (1320 GMT)(CNN) -- Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon continued for a fifth day Monday.
Israeli aircraft and artillery pounded Hezbollah strongholds while guerrillas seeking to end Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon fired more rockets on northern Israel.
Hezbollah declared squads of suicide bombers were standing by to avenge the Israeli blitz.
At least 28 people have been killed and more than 100 injured since the violence erupted last week following a Hezbollah rocket attack on northern Israel. Except for one Israeli soldier, all the dead were Lebanese civilians.
In Paris, Lebanese Premier Rafik al-Hariri said Israeli air raids only boosted support for Hezbollah fighters and appealed for an immediate cease-fire and an Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
But Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said he was not ready for negotiation.
"It is too early to negotiate," Peres told reporters when asked for Israel's conditions for an end to the fighting.
The French foreign minister, dispatched to the Mideast to try a win a cease-fire, was due to meet Peres in Jerusalem Monday evening before traveling to Syria and Lebanon on Tuesday. The U.N. Security Council was set to take up the conflict at a meeting on Monday.
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