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The United Nations called on Israel to stop its daily air violations of Lebanese airspace.
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The Lebanese army has resumed attacks on a Palestinian refugee camp that was the scene of intense fighting last month. More than 150 civilians have fled the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp since clashes broke out Wednesday.
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At least four UN soldiers were killed and four wounded Sunday when a Spanish vehicle of the UN interim force was rocked by a blast in the Marjeyoun-Khiyam area in southern Lebanon.
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At least two Katyusha rockets fell on northern Israel Sunday, the first fired from Lebanon since last summer’s inconclusive war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Two Lebanese Red Cross workers have been killed outside a Palestinian refugee camp where troops are battling Islamist fighters, officials have said.
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Two soldiers, one civilian, and one militant died yesterday as clashes between the Lebanese army and Palestinian militants spread to a second refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
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In Lebanon, fighting has resumed at a Palestinian refugee camp where the Lebanese military has squared off against the Islamic militant group Fatah Islam. Eighty people have now been killed in the conflict, including civilians.
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Hamas’s television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike that urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. During one of the skits, Farfur told young viewers that he aspired to be like the slain spiritual leaders of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired American-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said Saturday.
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Israel has named Maj Gen Gabi Ashkenazi as its new military chief, following the resignation last week of his predecessor, Lt Gen Dan Halutz.
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In Lebanon, large anti-government protests have entered their fourth day.
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The cabinet minister of Lebanon was assassinated.
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A team of United Nations investigators has concluded that Israel engaged in “a significant pattern of excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate force” against Lebanese civilians that amounted to “a flagrant violation” of international law during its war against Hezbollah last summer.
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More than 700 Islamic militants from Somalia traveled to Lebanon in July to fight alongside Hezbollah in its war against Israel, a United Nations report says.
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Due to the Lebanon war, Israel was facing an eight-fold increase in the cost of marijuana.
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Israeli jets intensified Monday their overflights over Lebanon reaching areas over the capital Beirut, Lebanese police said, despite warnings from the UN. The overflights are a violation of ceasefire conditions and UN troops are now authorized to open fire.
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The Israeli government has admitted that it used controversial phosphorus weapons in its attacks against targets during its month long war in Lebanon this summer.
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In Lebanon, UN peacekeepers have reportedly warned Israel they may open fire if Israeli warplanes continue flights over Lebanese airspace. The warning was disclosed by Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz during testimony before the Israeli Knesset this week. Peretz says Israel will ignore the warnings and continue the flights.
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Israel accused Syria on Monday of continuing to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon in violation of a United Nations-backed ceasefire and said it might take military action if the shipments didn’t stop.
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A Jordanian poll published Thursday indicated that 84 per cent of Lebanese believe that the recent conflict in southern Lebanon was a premeditated attempt by the United States and Israel to impose a new Middle East order.
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