41.   French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette arrived in Cairo on Wednesday on a diplomatic shuttle through the Middle East to seek an end to Israeli bombardments of Lebanon.

42.   He also had a message for the Lebanese refugees who were returning home at the weekend to find widespread destruction in the aftermath of the Israeli bombardments.

43.   He recalled one four-year-old girl who was brought alone without her parents to his ward at the height of the Israeli bombardments.

44.   Hezbollah says it uses the rockets to counter Israeli bombardments of southern Lebanese villages.

45.   Hezbollah guerrillas rocketed northern Israel on Wednesday in revenge for the killing of a young girl in an Israeli bombardment, the Iranian-backed movement said.

46.   Hezbollah, which spearheads anti-Israeli attacks in south Lebanon, had repeatedly threatened to fire rockets into Israel in retaliation for Israeli bombardment of civilian areas.

47.   A fighter from the pro-Syrian Shiite Amal movement was killed in an Israeli retaliatory bombardment on south Lebanon, they added.

48.   A French navy transport ship is due to arrive in Beirut on Friday carrying aid supplies to Lebanon following the recent Israeli bombardments, the defence ministry said Thursday.

49.   A Hezbollah guerrilla died in an Israeli bombardment of villages in south Lebanon, a spokesman for the Iranian-backed Lebanese group said Friday.

50.   A mother of two from Hannawiye, one of the villages which took the brunt of Israeli bombardments, is skeptical.