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day," Rice said, after learning of the dramatic announcement from Jerusalem. She then called Olmert, to hear from him whether there was still room for negotiations.

In Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes pounded south Beirut and border crossings to Syria, and ground fighting picked up intensity in the south of the country. In the Bekaa Valley, an Israeli drone attacked a convoy of more than 100 vehicles fleeing the occupied town of Marjayoun, killing at least one man and wounding others.

An Israeli drone fired at a convoy fleeing attacks in southern Lebanon, killing at least one man and wounding other people, witnesses and hospital officials said. The state-run National News Agency said at least four people were killed.

The convoy of more than 100 civilian vehicles as well as vehicles carrying a detachment of 350 Lebanese soldiers and police was hit near the town of Chtaura in the Bekaa Valley. Hospital officials in the town of Job Jannine said they received 25 casualties from the attack; it was not immediately clear how many were fatalities.

Security officials in the Bekaa said at least nine rockets were fired on the convoy.

Two U.N. peacekeeping armored vehicles led the convoy out of the Israeli-occupied town of Marjayoun; it was not know if they were still with the convoy at the time of the attack.

Associated Press photographer Lutfallah Daher was with the convoy. He said he saw one dead man and many other people wounded.

Israeli planes dropped leaflets over parts of Beirut, saying Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is "cheating" the Lebanese and hiding the number of losses among the militiamen. The paper included the names of about 90 fighters Israel said were killed.

Israel has imposed a virtual lockdown on traffic across southern Lebanon and key northern routes, seeking to cut off weapons and aid shipments to Hezbollah. The attack on the Abboudiyeh border crossing apparently