Israel: Cease-fire holds -- or else

JERUSALEM, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- An Israeli official says if the cease-fire does not hold Monday, military operations won't stop, and there is evidence Iranian fighters are in Lebanon.

Trade Minister Isaac Herzog told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer" Sunday if the Lebanese are unable to keep Hezbollah to the cease-fire "it will be very sad and Israel will keep operating" in southern Lebanon to destroy "their infrastructure in those areas."

CNN reports Hezbollah is balking at giving up its weapons in the southern zone created by the U.N. cease-fire and due to be occupied by the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers.

Nahoud Mahmoud, Lebanon's U.N. envoy, told Blitzer the Lebanese army would not use force to disarm Hezbollah in the U.N.-created buffer zone.

Mahmoud conceded Hezbollah's kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers started the crisis, but said Israeli escalation was the main problem. He spoke as CNN showed live pictures of Hezbollah rockets striking the Israeli city of Haifa.

The Israeli cabinet voted to accept the cease-fire resolution Sunday.

Herzog said the Israeli military has evidence members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have been killed fighting alongside Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The trade minister said Israel will release captured militants and expects the international community to act if Hezbollah does not release two kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

Also on "Late Edition," U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said Iran is playing a role in the Iraq insurgency.