Today the two sides remain on tenterhooks

Despite a few skirmishes, the truce is good for two days the Lebanon between Israel and the Shiite militia, under the agreement negotiated by the United Nations with Israel and the Lebanon after the adoption of resolution 1701 to the Security Council. Fighting stopped Monday at 8 a.m. and, soon, a steady stream of cars formed on the roads, thousands of Lebanese returning home. About 1 million of them have been displaced by the conflict. Yesterday, however, the Israeli army has dispersed leaflets on tyre, calling the Lebanese not to regain the South "and" that the Lebanese army and the strength of the United Nations is will not deploy.

Eloquent evidence of the fragility of the ceasefire, after thirty-four days of a war without thanks which devastated Lebanon, involving 1,200 dead and 3,700 injured and causing immense damage, estimated at $ 6 billion. While in Israel, where about 500,000 people have been the North of the country, 40 civilians and 119 soldiers were killed. Today, the two sides remain on tenterhooks. Hezbollah, which claims victory, is reluctant to disarm, as yet provided resolution 1701. "The question of disarmament cannot be dealt with in a hasty manner and under pressure", said Monday the head of the Party of God, Hassan Nasrallah. The Lebanese army will begin to deploy "all days" to the border with Israel, to send 15,000 troops to the South Lebanon, which will be supported by the strength of the United Nations in the Lebanon (UNIFIL). It needs to shift from 2,000 to 15,000 men, parallel to the withdrawal of the Israeli army. Ten to fifteen days the United Nations hopes already deploy 3,000 to 3,500 men provided by the international community. Yesterday, on Europe 1, the Chief of operations of the peace of the United Nations, Jean-Marie Guéhenno hoped the arrival of the first reinforcements of UNIFIL "to here about ten days". Whereas, in an interview with the "world", General Alain Pellegrini, Commander of UNIFIL, felt his side that should be a year to bring the number to 15,000 men.

Extreme international tension

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Philippe Douste-Blazy, yesterday went to Beirut to discuss with the Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora. The France was approached to head of UNIFIL, but the French Minister, a decline of Hezbollah North of the Litani River and its disarmament are essential. Caution imitated by many other countries. The Italy has it, said ready yesterday to send up to 3,000 men.

During this time, the diplomatic ballet accelerates. Minister Israeli Foreign Affairs, Tzipi Livni, must meet tomorrow with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, in New York, to discuss the implementation of the resolution. But at the international level, the tension is extreme. Monday, US President George w. Bush issued Hezbollah, the Iran and the responsible Syria of the war. "The Iran has made it clear that he wanted the destruction of Israel." "We cannot imagine what properly greatest dangers would run this conflict if the Iran had nuclear weapons," a-t-il said. As the Syria, it "allows the leaders of Hezbollah to operate from Damascus". A major Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami replied that Tel Aviv would be the "target of Iranian missiles" If the United States and Israel attacked the Iran. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, he violently responded yesterday in Damascus, accusing Israel of having "planned this war for years", and the Bush administration "to adopt the principle of preventive war."