Diplomats wrangle over UN draft
Aid efforts are hampered by Lebanon＇s destroyed infrastructure
Talks are being held at the United Nations on possible changes to a draft resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
An Arab League delegation is travelling to New York to push Lebanon＇s demands for an amended text.
Lebanon wants the proposed resolution to call for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
The Lebanese government has offered to send 15,000 troops to the border when Israel pulls out.
Lebanon is pressing for the US to accept that plan and work it into the draft resolution.
The current text - drafted by the US and France - calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities and lays the groundwork for a second that would install an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
At least 33 people have died in fresh Israeli raids across Lebanon, while Hezbollah fired more than 100 rockets at Israel, wounding some civilians.
After nightfall, at least eight people were killed and several wounded in an Israeli air strike in the south of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, rescue workers said.
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Three Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes in the southern Lebanese village of Bint Jbeil, the Israeli military said, adding that five Hezbollah militants were also killed.
The Israeli military said it had also downed an Hezbollah drone - the first time an unmanned spotter plane has been destroyed in the conflict.
The Israeli army has warned southern Lebanese residents to stay indoors from 2200 (1900 GMT).
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora drastically revised down the death toll of an Israeli air strike in the village of Houla.
In tears, he had told a meeting of Arab foreign ministers that 40 civilians had been killed, but later said the attack had in fact killed one person.
"They thought that the whole building smashed on the heads of 40 people," he told reporters in Beirut. "Thank God that they have been saved."
US to ＇listen＇
Senior Israeli officials have said they are broadly happy with the text of the UN resolution.
Northern Israel was again hit by a barrage of Hezbollah rockets
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged that there were differences but called the resolution "a reasonable basis that I think both sides can accept" once the details are finalised.
"We＇re going to listen to the concerns of the parties and see how they might be addressed," she said.
France＇s ambassador to the UN, Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, also defended the resolution but admitted it "could be improved".
US President George W Bush, at his ranch in Texas, called for a resolution to be passed as soon as possible.
But he insisted it must not lead to a situation where Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon too quickly and Hezbollah militants were able to re-arm.
City cut off
More than 900 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict, the Lebanese government said. More than 90 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed.
Israeli Defence Minster Amir Peretz said Israel would step-up its offensive against Hezbollah rocket-launching sites if the diplomatic process does not reach a successful conclusion.
And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, according to his office, told reservists on a visit to the Lebanese border: "I give to you all the power and the backing. We are not stopping."
Earlier, Israeli strikes focused on the Lebanese coastal city of Tyre.
The BBC＇s John Simpson in Tyre says the city is virtually cut off, with a crater now blocking the farm track that had been used to transport food and medicine.
Humanitarian groups say Israeli military action is hampering efforts to help many of the hundreds of thousands who have fled the fighting - sparked by the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah on 12 July.
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