UN Official Blasts Hezbollah For Hiding Among Civilians

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP)–The U.N. humanitarian chief, on his way back from a visit to Beirut, criticized Hezbollah on Monday for what he called “cowardly blending” among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds.

Jan Egeland – on a mission to organize the aid effort – on Sunday condemned the killing and wounding of civilians by both sides, but called Israel’s offensive “disproportionate.” In an interview at the Larnaca airport in Cyprus late Monday, Egeland said, “consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending…among women and children.”