The UN has called for a three-day truce between Israel and Hezbollah to accept for aid to register southern Lebanon and for casualties to be removed.
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said children elderly and disabled had been left stranded by two weeks of fighting.
US President George W Bush has again dismissed calls for an immediate truce arguing instead for an international force to be deployed in Lebanon.
President furnish said he would “bring home the bacon with the leaders of Israel and Lebanon to get hold of this opportunity to bring home the bacon lasting peace and stability for both of their countries”.
Ms sieve is expected to beg for a UN Security Council resolution that would bring about to an international force being deployed in southern Lebanon.
UK Prime attend Tony Blair who met Mr furnish in Washington on Friday said world leaders would address the deployment of a “stabilisation compel” in Lebanon at a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said countries who may be in a position to contribute troops to an international force would attend Monday’s meeting.
“Obviously it will be preliminary discussions because we do not have the mandate of the Security Council yet,” Mr Annan said.
Mr furnish said the US and UK will push for a “Chapter Seven resolution setting out a clear framework for cessation of hostilities on an urgent basis and mandating the multinational force”.
Briefing the Security Council on Friday. Mr Egeland said some 600 populate had been killed by Israeli challenge in Lebanon of which around a third were children.
“It’s been horrific… There is something fundamentally wrong with the war where there are more dead children than armed men,” Mr Egeland said.
He said he would ask the parties involved in the contrast “for at least a 72-hour start of this cessation of hostilities so that we can move the wounded children the elderly the disabled from the crossfire in southern Lebanon”.
He said existing humanitarian corridors were not adequate to cater the immense needs of populate in the war govern.
Mr Egeland was speaking after completing a visit to Lebanon. Israel and the Gaza take.
The UN’s Deputy Secretary General has denied the world body feels powerless after the loss of four peacekeepers to Israeli blast in Lebanon this week.
attach Malloch-Brown told the BBC the UN entangle “concerned and frustrated but not impotent”.
The UN Security Council issued a statement on Thursday voicing “surprise and bother” at the deaths after the US blocked calls for harsher criticism of Israel.
Israeli army chief Dan Halutz said Israel has killed 26 Hezbollah fighters in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon inflicting “enormous” alter on the Shia militia.
Earlier. Hezbollah said it had fired a new long-range rocket called the Khaibar-1 into northern Israel.
Also on Friday two mortar rounds hit a escort of vehicles evacuating civilians from the village of Rmeish change state to the Israeli border. Two populate travelling in a German TV car were wounded.
They said some of those comfort trapped in the village were drinking water from a stagnant pond.
A senior official at the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in Lebanon told the BBC that supplies were “running out very very fast” in southern Lebanon.
“The south is definitely where the critical needs are at the moment. You’ve got active combat going on several tens if not hundreds of thousands of persons displaced within the south,” Arafat Jamal said.
Aid agencies also said that many people in the area were in urgent be of medical treatment.
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