"President Hu Jintao is very concerned over our peacekeepers in Lebanon," said a front-page headline in the leading People's Daily, which also underscored Hu's "strong condemnation" of Tuesday's incident.

The Beijing Times's lead story was headlined: "Our UN observer killed in Israel attack," with the paper focusing on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's remarks that Israel had apparently deliberately targeted the UN post.

In the only editorial by a major newspaper, the English language China Daily, which is largely targeted at foreign readers, was scathing in its condemnation.

"Israel has gone too far," the headline to the editorial read.

"Israel's attack on a long established and clearly marked United Nations base overlooking the border at Khiam in southern Lebanon on Tuesday is stunning," the editorial said.

"We express our strongest condemnation at this inhuman move... Israel must apologize for the bombing and to the victims' families."

The editorial said that no political pretext can justify "such outrages," and added that Israel's bombing had gone "beyond the legitimate right of self-defence."

Many papers carried profiles of Lieutenant-Colonel Du Zhaoyu, the Chinese official killed in the attack, while also underscoring Beijing's heightened concern over the 180 Chinese peacekeepers and observers in Lebanon.

Four UN observers were killed in the attack, which Israel has said was an accident. The other victims were from Austria, Canada, and Finland.

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