The news comes after Islamic militant group Hezbollah will abide by a U.N. cease-fire resolution, its leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said, but the group will continue fighting as long as Israeli troops remained in south Lebanon, a separate report from the AP said.

In a televised address, Nasrallah accepted the cease-fire plan as the Lebanese Cabinet was in session to vote on whether to agree to the U.N. resolution, the report said. Hezbollah has two ministers in the government.

The resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council was seeking a full cessation of violence between Israel and Hezbollah on Friday, the AP reported, offering the region its best chance yet for peace after a month of fighting that has killed nearly 900 people and increased tensions in the Mideast.

The resolution was adopted unanimously and gives 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers the authorization to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon while Israeli forces that have occupied the area withdraw, the AP said.

Heavy fighting continued on Saturday, the report said, with Israel sending a flood of military power into Lebanon, dispatching thousands of troops and columns of armor into the hills just north of its border.