Earlier today UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for an international force to be sent to Lebanon to stop Hezbollah from attacking Israel. But Israel — which has rejected calls for a ceasefire — said it is too soon to talk of deploying an international force.

• Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres, speaking on Saturday: “There is a clear distinction between two camps. One is made of Hezbollah, the Hamas, the Iranians and the Syrians They are the aggressors for no good reason. They want to destroy, they don’t want anyone else or less. The real victim right now are the Lebanese. There is not a a slightest conflict between Lebanon as a state and the Lebanese as a people.”