BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah and Lebanese officials were mostly mum Monday after an Israeli government report accused the country's wartime leaders of severe failures during last summer's war against the guerrilla group in Lebanon.

But one Hezbollah official had harsh words for embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and others, saying the report confirmed that Israel's leaders were in a state of confusion during the 34-day war.

The report "confirmed the inability of the Israeli political and military leadership to take the appropriate decision to confront Hezbollah during the summer war," Sheik Hassan Ezzeddine, Hezbollah's most senior political officer in southern Lebanon, told The Associated Press.

Other Hezbollah officials declined to comment on the report, saying they needed time to carefully read it. A spokesman for Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora also declined to immediately comment.

The highly anticipated Israeli report capped a six-month investigation into the war, which has been widely perceived as a failure by the Israeli public.

Israel went to war after Hezbollah guerrillas killed three soldiers and captured two others in a cross-border raid on July 12. Monday's report said Olmert hastily led the country into conflict without a comprehensive plan, exercised poor judgment and bore ultimate responsibility for a war that Israelis widely fear has emboldened the country's enemies.

Olmert, who has already faced strident calls for resignation from his political opponents, said the "failures will be remedied" and vowed to remain in office.

But Ezzeddine predicted that political, public and military pressure would eventually force Olmert to step down.

"Olmert will not be able to stay put in the face of pressure from the military, opposition parties and the Israeli public," he said.

The report covers the first six days of the war, when Israel battered Lebanon with massive airstrikes as Hezbollah pounded Israel with rockets. The report also looks at developments in the six years leading up to the conflict, beginning with Israel's pullout from southern Lebanon in 2000 and tracing Hezbollah's buildup along the border.

Between 1,035 and 1,191 Lebanese civilians and combatants were killed during the war, as were 119 Israeli soldiers and 39 civilians, according to official figures from the two sides.