Israeli raid in Lebanon violates truce, Annan says

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (Reuters) UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said an Israeli raid in Lebanon violated the UN-backed truce and made him ''deeply concerned.'' ''The secretary-general is deeply concerned about a violation by the Israeli side of the cessation of hostilities as laid out in Security Council resolution 1701,'' a spokesman for Annan said in a statement posted on the UN Web site. ''The incident involved an Israeli raid in eastern Lebanon yesterday.'' Israel said the commando attack on a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon was defensive and was designed to disrupt weapons supplies to Hizbollah from Syria and Iran.

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