HEZBOLLAH LAUNCHES ROCKET BARRAGE!

Israel has suffered its highest number of casualties in a single day. At least 15 people have been killed in a barrage of Hezbollah rocket strikes on northern Israel.
Twelve reservist soldiers died in an attack on the town of Kfar Giladi.
A number of rockets later landed on the Israeli port of Haifa, killing three people and injuring dozens. Reports said at least one building collapsed.
Meanwhile, the UN is debating a draft resolution on the crisis, demanding Hezbollah halt all attacks and Israel stop all offensive military operations.
However, Lebanon has formally asked the UN Security Council to revise its proposed resolution.
Israel has continued raids in Lebanon, killing at least 14 people. Rockets rain down The death toll in Kfar Giladi is the highest suffered by the Israelis in a single attack since the conflict began almost a month ago, after Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers.

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Eyewitnesses said the Hezbollah rocket barrage on northern Israel had lasted more than 15 minutes. Shortly after dark, several rockets landed in residential areas of Haifa, Israel's third largest city, killing at least three and injuring dozens. One rocket hit an apartment block which partly collapsed, trapping residents inside. Rescue teams were shifting rubble by hand to free them.

The BBC's Humphrey Hawksley in Haifa says the renewed rocket assault followed a lull and may have taken some residents by surprise. He describes people in the street throwing themselves to the ground as the rockets hit - following government advice on the best way to avoid the hail of ball-bearings packed into the warheads. Israel continued pounding targets around Lebanon on Sunday.Israeli army spokesman Jacob Dallal told Associated Press news agency that Israeli jets had attacked a site in Qana in southern Lebanon and destroyed the rocket launchers that were used in the attack on Haifa.

Other rocket launchers were destroyed in an attack north of Tyre, he said. Hezbollah has fired more than 3,000 rockets into northern Israel since the conflict began. Israel is continuing other operations in Lebanon with dozens of air strikes in the south and reports of fierce clashes on the ground. Five Lebanese civilians died early on Sunday in an air raid on the southern village of Ansar, according to Lebanese sources. Reports say three others were killed in an attack on the coastal town of Naquora. Israeli jets also carried out fresh bombing raids on Beirut's southern suburbs, in and around the port city of Tyre, and on the eastern Bekaa Valley.

The UN draft resolution, agreed after much debate between France and the US, calls for a "full cessation of hostilities". Senior Israeli officials said they were broadly happy with the text of the resolution. An Israeli spokesman told the BBC his government could be prepared to pull all its forces out of Lebanon once the resolution was passed and when Israel had cleared what he called "the last remaining Hezbollah strongholds". He said Israel would then monitor the south of Lebanon from behind its own border and reserve the right to use air strikes and occasional ground incursions.

The spokesman said that once a UN force had arrived Israel would in effect hand over the policing of southern Lebanon to the UN and Lebanese government. The Lebanese representative at the UN, Nouhad Mahmoud, said he had submitted an amendment to the truce text, calling for Israeli forces to withdraw from Lebanese territory. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem, in Beirut for talks with Lebanese leaders, said the draft resolution was a "recipe for the continuation of the war". Speaking before the amendment was submitted, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a quick vote was important, and if passed, the resolution should end large-scale violence soon. But she warned ongoing "skirmishes" could not be ruled out, and the resolution was only the first step towards lasting peace.

BBC NEWS REPORT.