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• Israelis sue Lebanese banks for helping Hezbollah

  - 2008-07-08

  NEW YORK AFP — About 60 Israeli victims of the 2006 Lebanon war have filed a 100 million dollar lawsuit in a US court against five Lebanese banks for their alleged support of the Hezbollah militant group, their lawyers said Tuesday. "This case is an attempt to uphold international...

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• US frets for civilians caught in Lebanon fighting

  - 2008-05-12

  WASHINGTON AFP — The White House expressed concern Monday for civilians caught up in fighting between Lebanon's Western-backed government and Hezbollah forces, and appealed for respect of the nation's democracy. Asked if talks would go ahead between President George W. Bush and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora on Sunday...

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• Clashes end at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

  - 2008-03-22

  SIDON, Lebanon AFP — Quiet returned to Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday after a ceasefire between Islamic militants and fighters of the mainstream Fatah faction ended heavy clashes. The hundreds of civilians who had fled the fighting in the densely populated Ain al-Helweh camp outside the southern...

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• Clashes end at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

  - 2008-03-21

  SIDON, Lebanon AFP — Quiet returned to Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday after a ceasefire between Islamic militants and fighters of the mainstream Fatah faction ended heavy clashes. The hundreds of civilians who had fled the fighting in the densely populated Ain al-Helweh camp outside the southern...

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• Israel to bolster ground troops

  - 2007-09-03

  JERUSALEM AFP — The Israeli military on Monday unveiled a five-year rearmament programme designed primarily to bolster its ground forces, whose performance was criticised during last year's Lebanon war. "The main objective of the plan is to build, equip and train the army so that it can carry out...

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• Lebanon army awaits news from militants on evacuation

  - 2007-08-23

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — The Lebanese army and Palestinian clerics on Thursday were still without news from militants inside a besieged refugee camp over arrangements to evacuate civilians, a mediator said. "Despite all of our efforts to reach Fatah al-Islam we haven't made contact with them since Tuesday,"...

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• Lebanese troops bombard Islamists

  - 2007-07-09

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Lebanese troops on Monday pounded Islamist positions in a Palestinian camp where about 400 refugees have been stranded with dwindling water and food supplies. The army targeted positions of Fatah al-Islam fighters in the seafront Nahr al-Bared refugee camp of northern Lebanon where the...

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• Lebanese army boxes in Islamist diehards

  - 2007-07-05

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Lebanese troops on Thursday tried to tighten the net around Islamist militants holed up in a battered camp, where trapped refugees have been forced to scavenge for food and water. Three civilians were taken out of the camp in an ambulance in the first...

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• 'Safe haven' for trapped refugees in Lebanon battle camp

  - 2007-06-27

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — A safe haven has been set up inside a bombed-out refugee camp in Lebanon for civilians trapped by almost 40 days of fighting between the army and Islamist militiamen, a Palestinian camp official said. Sporadic gunfire erupted around the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern...

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• Three Lebanese troops killed as army tightens siege

  - 2007-06-01

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Three Lebanese soldiers were killed Friday as the army tightened a noose around Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp, where the humanitarian situation was described as desperate. Thick smoke could be seen rising from targets struck by army tank and mortar...

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