WORLD / Middle East

Lebanon: Israel attack has killed 900
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-08-03 16:03

BEIRUT - Israel's three-week-old offensive against Hizbollah in Lebanon has killed more than 900 people and wounded 3,000 with a third of the casualties children under 12, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Thursday.

Siniora, in a video message to a summit of leaders of the Muslim world, added that a quarter of the population, or one million people, had been displaced.