PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON, RAFIC AL HARIRI:
``Now Mr. Peres admits he cannot continue his war and is seeking a political solution, I have always said this problem can never be solved by military action. It has to be solved by political efforts. We will do our best to assure a cease fire.''

PRESIDENT OF LEBANON, ELIAS HRAOUI:
"How could the Israeli people, once the victims of Auschwitz, Treblinka and others, accept that its State massacre more than a hundred men, women and children who were all innocent civilians in Qana that was once visited by Christ and was a scene of His miracles?" he said. "What do you want Lebanon to become? Do you want it to be the sight of mass graves for the world to visit? Would Lebanon say to this world "This is what you did with your own hands. Weren't the mass graves of Jews a testimony to the crimes committed by the Nazis 60 years ago?"

US AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL, MARTIN INDYK :
``This crisis began because Katyusha rockets fell on Kiryat Shemona and other places in northern Israel,''

PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL, SHIMON PERES :
Israel would stop firing if Hizbollah stopped firing but said Israeli forces occupying south Lebanon would return fire if attacked.

``I regret the death of every woman, child or any innocent individual who is killed."

UNIFIL'S SPOKESMAN, TIMOR GOSKEL:
``There is no justification for killing civilians. This is a well known UN post for the Fijian battalion and Israel knows it's location and knows that there are civilian refugees inside.''

UN MILITARY ADVISOR, MAJOR GENERAL FRANKLIN VAN KAPPEN:
"When I went there, I believed the Israeli Army, a few shells had just overshot. I was there only ten minutes when I knew that theory was in deep trouble. This was not a simple overshoot."