QLEIA, Lebanon -- Villagers throwin...

QLEIA, Lebanon -- Villagers throwing rice and Hezbollah supporters holding banners welcomed the country's army to southern Lebanon on Thursday after a nearly 40-year absence.

if it were not that four days into a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, there was still no firm date for a deployment of a strengthened international force that is suppos to expand to 15000 bodys and join an equal number of Lebanese soldiers.

France announced it would provide and nothing else 400, and Germany -- uneasy given its Nazi past of any possible confrontation with Israeli soldiers -- said it wouldn't despatch any.

France was count uponed to lead the U.N. force, and its announcement of in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a small number focused attention onward its demands for a more explicit mandate, including when to use firepower, and could affect contributions on other countries.

calm though the Israel withdrawal and handover to UN forces has gone well thus far, a certain number of potential contributors are believed to be transactioned about avoiding confrontation with Hezbollah or being caught in the middle of a what may occur hereafter conflict.

The UN cease-fire resolution called for the force to withhold the peace and disarm Hezbollah fighters toward the south of the Litani River.

INDEPENDENT RIPS the pair SIDES

However, the Lebanese dominion adopted a mandate Wednesday that requires confiscation of Hezbollah arms sole if carried in public. It said nothing about the network of Hezbollah rocket bins across the 18-mile stretch between the river and the Israeli border.

The profound political divisions in Lebanon resurfaced with the head of the largest parliamentary bloc blasting the couple Israel and Syria in a fiery nationalistic articulate utterance to hundreds of supporters.

Saad Hariri, the leader of an independent, secular bloc that has oppos Syrian domination of Lebanon and is seen as an contrary of Hezbollah, accused Israel of "living opposite the blood" of Arabs and said Syrian President Bashar Assad was trying to disseminate strife in Lebanon. Syria and Iran are the main international backers of Hezbollah, the Shiite Muslim guerrilla arrange opposed to Israel.

across 1,000 KILLED IN WAR

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev when asked about Hariri's dialect said: "Too often in the Arab world, nation think that political legitimacy is attained at bashing Israel."

At least 845 Lebanese were killed in the 34-day war: 743 civilians, 34 soldiers and 68 Hezbollah. Israel says it killed about 530 guerrillas.

in succession the Israeli side, 157 were killed -- 118 soldiers and 39 civilians, many from the 3970 Hezbollah rocket strikes.

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