SITRAP: Middle East 2006.07.25

Time for another SITRAP folks. Obviously alot has gone on since the last one a couple of days ago.

• US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice has now met with the Lebanese Prime Minister, Israeli Prime Minister, and the Palestinian President.
• All sides are pressing for a cease-fire. However, there is still a disconnect on the terms of that cease fire among the three parties.
• An IDF General has claimed that as many as 30 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours.
• More than 2,200 Katyusha rockets have been fired by Hezbollah on Israeli cities.
• An increasing number of countries are pledging humanitarian aid (mostly in the form of money) to the Lebanese.
• The major governmental parties of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict (Israelis, Lebanese, Palestinians, the Americans, and others) will be meeting in Rome to hammer out a cease fire.

Tags: Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, United States, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Terrorism, War, Middle East