Israel widened its offensive on Friday despite the UN resolution. Some 30,000 Israeli troops are in Lebanon.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said fighting should end immediately to spare civilians.

The fighting should stop now to respect the spirit and intent of the Security Council decision, the object of which was to save civilian lives, to spare the pain and suffering that the civilians on both sides are living through, Annan said.

At least 1,078 people in Lebanon and 144 Israelis, including 104 soldiers, have been killed in the war.

Analysts cautioned that a truce may not hold, particularly with Israeli troops still in Lebanon.

I think this talk of a ceasefire going into effect tomorrow seems to be highly exaggerated and dubious, said Mouin Rabbani, senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group.

It seems that Israels strategy has been to establish positions as far north as possible to implement a fighting withdrawal, meaning that they will try to take on as much of Hezbollah as they can as they work their way south.

Israels Haaretz newspaper reported that the Israeli Government was willing to discuss a possible release of Hezbollah prisoners in exchange for the freeing of two Israeli soldiers whose capture on July 12 sparked the war.

In Lebanon, three civilians were killed and 13 wounded in an Israeli air raid on the village of Ali Al Nahri in the eastern Bekaa Valley, security sources said.

Five people, including a mother and her three children, died when a house was struck near the southern city of Tyre, and two people were killed and four wounded when a truck was hit in the eastern Bekaa valley. Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in an air strike in the Bekaa valley and another was killed in Tyre.