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[quote:4a057]United Nations chief Kofi Annan says an Israeli raid in Lebanon has 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 says on the UN website.

Israel said the commando attack on a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon on Saturday was defensive and designed to disrupt weapons supplies to Hizbollah from Syria and Iran.

Lebanon called the raid a "flagrant violation" of the peace deal and warned it might seek to stop the deployment of its troops in the south of the country.

The White House declined to criticise the Israeli operation.

Hizbollah claimed it foiled the raid and denied reports that three guerrillas had been killed.

French soldiers have arrived in Lebanon, becoming the first reinforcements for the expanded UN peacekeeping force tasked with keeping the truce in the Israel-Hizbollah conflict.[/quote:4a057]

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