Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says Israel will not tolerate violations of a two-year-old cease-fire by the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.This comes just a day after Israel and Hezbollah signed an agreement to exchange prisoners. Barak made the charge in a phone call to the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, according to a statement late Tuesday from Barak's office. Israel Army Radio reports that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is summoning his Security Cabinet Wednesday to discuss Hezbollah violations.
The statement quoted Barak as saying, ' Israel cannot accept the continuing and increasing erosion' of the truce. It lists arms supplies from Syria and demands that the U.N. force take action to stop it.