Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon continued today, even as the U.S. has asked Israel to back off its invasion,

which threatens to derail wider Mideast ceasefire talks set for this weekend.

Israel says it hit 120 Hezbollah sites across Lebanon in the past 24 hours.

Lebanon's government says at least 65 people were killed

today. NPR's Lauren Frere reports from Beirut. Lebanese state media say the city of Nabilia and

surrounding villages came under a barrage of Israeli attacks, destroying homes and shops and

killing 13 state security officers at the main government building there.

Hezbollah's leader Naim Qasem issued a statement ahead of unprecedented Israel-Lebanon talks,

urging Lebanese authorities to, quote, stop offering free concessions. Lebanon's prime minister

has pledged to disarm the Iran-backed group, something Israel says it would

appreciate. Kassam also said he won't accept a return to the previous situation. A reference to when

before the current invasion, the United Nations says Israel continuously violated a previous ceasefire.

Lauren Friar and PR News, Beirut. Israel's attacks on Lebanon have forced more than a million people from their homes.

David Miliband is head of the International Rescue Committee, which aids people in war zones worldwide.

He visited Beirut last week.

The situation in Lebanon is a new scale of catastrophe.

One in five people forced from their homes. Only 150,000 of the

million plus people displaced in government shelters. So people sleeping on the floors of relatives,

the floors of friends, a few thousand also in tents in Beirut. It's an extraordinary city. You can

drive past the Beirut Yacht Club and outside the

Beirut Yacht Club, there are people in tents who've been forced from their homes.

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