Portal:Current events/2006 July 30

July 30, 2006 (Sunday)

2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis:
- Israel "halts" air strikes for forty-eight hours, after an airstrike killed sixty civilians in Qana, Lebanon. (CTV NEWS)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
- The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting on the Middle East crisis after the deaths of more than 54 Lebanese civilians in an Israeli raid. (BBC)
- More than 54 civilians, at least 37 of them children, are killed in the Lebanese town of Qana. (CNN), (BBC)
- Ehud Olmert states that "Israel is not in a hurry to have a cease-fire" before it achieves its goals. (The Independent)
- 146 Rockets hit Israel, at least three in Haifa, wounding six people. (Reuters)
The United Nations compound in Gaza City is stormed and ransacked by Palestinians protesting the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. Members of the Islamic Jihad militant group threw stones and fired assault rifles. Eight vehicles were damaged and five people were wounded. (Washington Post) Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback Machine