AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO LEBANON

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, speaks during a handing over ceremony of the first shipment of humanitarian goods for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) inside the embassy compound north of Beirut on July 25, 2006. This comes a day after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Lebanon where she met Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri. Rice now is in Israel meeting with officials. Tens of thousands of foreign nations have fled Lebanon over the past two weeks to escape the bombing in the country. Over 380 Lebanese, mostly civilians, have died since the conflict began on July 12, after Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed 7 others. (UPI Photo)