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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Last update - 14:01 18/11/2007
Report: War probe committee to blame Olmert for troop deaths
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Israel, Second Lebanon War 

A British newspaper reported Sunday that the final report of the committee investigating the conduct of Israel's senior echelons during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, is expected to find Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responsible for the death of 33 Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the final days of the conflict.

The war broke out in July 2006, following a cross-border attack by Lebanese-based guerilla group Hezbollah, which led to the deaths of eight IDF soldiers and the abduction of two others. The 34-day conflict ended with a United Nations cease-fire.

The Sunday Times said that the final report of the Winograd Committee will focus on the decision to continue the warfare after a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah had already taken shape at the UN security council.
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The Sunday Times quoted one of the sources as saying "Olmert, aware that a cease-fire agreement was underway, ordered the army to carry out an impossible operation to wind up a failed war against Hezbollah with a big showdown."

Another source stated that, "my hunch is that the report will blame Olmert in the harshest way possible and the last 60 hours of the war will be the hook on which they hang him."

Olmert has faced repeated calls to resign over his leadership during the 34-day conflict in the summer of 2006, in particular following the publication in May of the Winograd Committee's interim report, which included scathing criticism of the prime minister.

One IDF officer told the British newspaper "this was the operation the army had planned for months - to crack down decisively and finish off Hezbollah... But it should have begun the war, not ended it and we needed 96 hours to trap Hezbollah and then a week to finish them off."

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