1.   Prime Minister Shimon Peres and the armed forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Amnon Shahak, met with army commanders in northern Israel following the dawn ambush.

2.   Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas killed six soldiers and wounded two others in a dawn ambush, in the bloodiest attack in almost two years in the security zone.

3.   Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres denounced the dawn ambush as very dangerous for everyone concerned and blamed Syria for the new violence while Shahak pledged to continue hitting Hezbollah.

4.   The dawn ambush came on the same road where three Israeli soldiers were killed and six wounded in another attack by Hezbollah late Thursday.