Israel's leader softens his stance on a U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal with Hezbollah, but deadly strikes in Lebanon continue as he addresses the U.N.

The Israeli prime minister castigated Israel’s critics and the United Nations itself during his visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly.

Barely an hour after Netanyahu finished speaking, his regime demonstrated the genocidal content of his war vow, as huge explosions reduced residential apartment buildings to rubble in heavily-populated southern Beirut.