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(CNN)
Updated: 2006-08-13 11:43
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Convoy attack dispute
Attacks by Hezbollah continued, as well. By 6 p.m. Saturday about 48 rockets landed in northern Israel, 14 of them reaching cities, officials said. Three people received minor injuries, police said.
On Friday, Hezbollah launched 150 rockets, Israeli authorities told CNN.
Lebanese security sources are accusing Israel of firing eight missiles on an army convoy that included more than 1,000 civilian vehicles in the Bekaa Valley, killing at least six people and wounding 41 others Friday. CNN's Michael Ware described the scene of the aftermath as "appalling carnage."
The IDF said Saturday it did not grant permission for the convoy.
"Of the aid convoys that were authorized and coordinated by the IDF throughout this entire period, not a single convoy was hit by IDF fire," the Israeli military said.
But a spokesman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon, Milos Strugar, said the Israeli army had cleared the convoy for travel along a specific route to Zahle.
Since the war began, 880 Lebanese have been killed, most of them civilians, and 3,529 wounded, according to Lebanese Internal Security Forces. Israel said 92 military personnel and 40 civilians had been killed and about 1,000 wounded.