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Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
U.N. observers in Lebanon telephoned the Israeli military 10 times in six hours to ask it to stop shelling near their position before an attack killed four observers and sparked international anger with Israel, U.N. officials said Wednesday.Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Here's how the Israel-Hezbollah conflict is playing out on the Internet's latest window into the human experience, YouTube.com: Videos of young girls driving around smoking and joking about Hezbollah, next to shaky footage of grieving men toting dead bodies through rubble as sirens wail. Old propaganda films alongside homemade documentaries ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Just a few days ago we documented an attack, which took place last Wednesday, on the village of Blida, in which the Israelis used cluster munitions. Human Rights Watch has been very critical of the use of cluster and munitions by the U.S. military, because these are indiscriminate weapons.Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
A U.N. observer post was hit by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon Tuesday and there were casualties, a U.N. spokesman said. He could not specify how many or their condition.Link
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Washington's thinking is bold ... and includes a recipe both for ending the current fighting and preventing any resurgence. But there may be potent resistance to elements of the plan from Hizballah and Iran.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
For more than a week Israel has been raining down terror upon Lebanon...Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Lebanon on Monday to launch diplomatic efforts aimed at ending 13 days of warfare as Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the country in heavy fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas.Link
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Monday, July 24th, 2006
The war in Lebanon is a limited, local conflict.Link
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
200,000 Lebanese Head For Syria, Kofi Annan Fears Humanitarian DisasterLink
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Israeli troops backed by artillery and tank fire seized control of a Lebanese border village on Saturday and recovered weapons from another town in Hezbollah territory.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan renewed calls for an end to combat between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Israeli tanks, bulldozers and personnel carriers knocked down a border fence and entered southern Lebanon on Saturday.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
The story of a baby girl who was carried to a cruise ship evacuating Americans from Beirut to Cyprus. She was the very last passenger to make it on board.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
Roughly 22,000 refugees and asylum seekers are stranded in Lebanon - mainly from Iraq, Sudan and Somalia - and UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is increasingly concerned for their safety.Link
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Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
The two cars stopped hesitantly at the petrol station in the southern Lebanese village of Ibil al-Saqi. In the hills behind, plumes of white smoke from Israeli air strikes spiralled into the sky.Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Grim proof ordinary folk are dying...Link
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
Carpenters are running out of wood for coffins. Bodies are stacked three or four high in a truck at the local hospital morgue. The stench is spreading in the rubble.Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Fighting resumed Thursday in western Lebanon as clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah guerrillas continued for a ninth day, the Israel Defense Forces said.Link
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Tells Residents Along Border With Lebanon To Flee 'Immediately'Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Israeli forces have been bombing targets in Lebanon for an eighth day, with at least 40 civilian deaths reported in the south and east.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
About 1,100 American evacuees left Lebanon by sea and air bound for Cyprus on Wednesday, the largest group of U.S. citizens to have been rescued from the country in a single day, U.S. officials said.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
A cruise liner evacuating more than 1,000 Americans from war-ravaged Lebanon sailed for Cyprus on Wednesday, the first large pullout by the United States since Israel began its onslaught more than a week ago.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
BBC News sums up the two opposing viewpoints as violence continues to dominate the Middle East.Link
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
In Israel, it seems to be common practice to ask little girls to autograph bombs before the army uses it to shell civilians on the other side. Makes you understand why Israeli grown ups don't feel they are doing something wrong when they slaughter civilians. No hope that anytime, ...
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
The beginning of the sixth day of the Israeli offensive on Lebanon saw much more international handwringing but only tentative moves towards United Nations intervention as 42 civilians died in Israeli air strikes and dozens of Hizbullah rockets continued to rain down on northern Israel.Link
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Americans will not have to pay to be evacuated after allLink
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) -- Israeli ground troups have launched a cross-border incursion on the ground into southern Lebanon, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman told CNN early Wednesday. Link
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush expressed frustration Monday at attempts to get U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to do more to end the conflict in Lebanon.Link
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Syria will support Hezbollah and Lebanon against Israel's attacks on the country, the ruling Baath Party said on Friday, defying the Jewish state and its chief ally Washington. Link
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Saturday, July 15th, 2006
Israeli warplanes hit central Beirut for the first time and smashed the Hezbollah leadership's main strongholds on Saturday as strikes killed at least 33 Lebanese, including civilians fleeing the onslaught. Hezbollah guerrilla rockets continued to pour into Israel, where officials warned citizens that Tel Aviv could be attacked. Link
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Friday, July 14th, 2006
Speaking defiantly in an audiotape on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television less than an hour after missiles struck his headquarters and home, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah addressed Israelis and said they must take responsibility for their actions.Link
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Two rockets fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, the Israel Defense Forces saidLink
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
The State Department on Thursday authorized families of its embassy staff in Lebanon to leave and urged Americans to avoid travel into the country because of escalating violence between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah. Link
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
The plan apparently included the added bonus of flooding the Wall Street district. A suspect has been arrested in Lebanon.Link
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