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• Relief groups sound alarm over homeless after Lebanon clashes

  - 2008-07-31

  TRIPOLI, Lebanon AFP — Relief groups and officials sounded the alarm on Thursday over the fate of thousands of people made homeless by sectarian fighting in poverty-stricken areas of the north Lebanese port city. "We are deeply concerned about families, many with lots of small children, who were already...

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• Villagers in south Lebanon camp outdoors amid quake fears

  - 2008-07-01

  SRIFA, Lebanon AFP — Hundreds of residents of the south Lebanon village of Srifa have been camping out at night amid fears that a major earthquake will hit the region, their mayor said on Tuesday. Ali Eid said around 300 people from Srifa, a village of 6,000 inhabitants east...

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• Lebanese man killed by Israeli fire: medics

  - 2008-02-03

  MARJAYOUN, Lebanon AFP — One Lebanese man was killed and another wounded on Sunday when Israeli troops opened fire on them near the divided border village of Ghajar, medics and Lebanese officials told AFP. "Two wounded men were brought in to the Marjayoun government hospital. One died of his...

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• Hamas accuses Fatah over stabbing in Lebanese camp

  - 2007-12-29

  TYRE, Lebanon AFP — A Hamas member was fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the head on Saturday at the Rashidieh refugee camp in Lebanon in an attack which the Palestinian Islamist group blamed on rivals Fatah. "When Bassel al-Ashkar, 30, returned home, he was attacked...

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• Stench of corpses hampers Lebanon soldiers in grisly camp battle

  - 2007-08-11

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Lebanese soldiers are being hampered in their fight against holed-up Islamist militants by the stench of putrefying corpses, army and medical sources said on Saturday. An officer on the ground who requested anonymity told AFP that the rotting corpses littering the devastated Nahr Al-Bared...

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• Three Lebanese soldiers killed by die-hard camp militants

  - 2007-07-22

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Three Lebanese soldiers were killed Sunday in sporadic gunfire between the army and Islamist militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp. "Two soldiers were killed outright in the afternoon in the Nahr al-Bared camp," medical officials told AFP from the hospital in northern...

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• Lebanese army stands accused as Palestinians bury their dead

  - 2007-06-30

  BEDDAWI, Lebanon AFP — The Lebanese army on Saturday stood accused of using "excessive force" to disperse a protest in which two men were shot dead near a besieged camp, as Palestinian mourners buried one of the dead. "The protesters were more than 10 metres yards away from the...

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• Cluster bomb wounds two Belgian soldiers in Lebanon

  - 2007-01-29

  TEBNIN, Lebanon AFP — A cluster bomb explosion has wounded two Belgian soldiers on demining operations in southern Lebanon following last summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel, a UN spokesman said. "The two soldiers were carrying out demining operations in Kunin southeast of the port city of Tyre when...

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• Boy killed by Israeli cluster bomb in Lebanon

  - 2006-10-22

  MARJAYUN, Lebanon AFP — A 10-year-old boy was killed and his brother have been seriously wounded when an Israeli cluster bomb blew up as they harvested olives in southern Lebanon. The family was working in their olive grove in the village of Helta, near the border with Israel, when the...

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• Children face perils of bomblets in Lebanon

  - 2006-09-29

  NABATIYAH, Lebanon AFP — From a hospital bed, 14-year-old Hassan tells how half his foot was blasted away by one of the million bomblets that Israel rained on south Lebanon during its war with Hezbollah. "I ran across a small object hidden in the vegetation," the teenager says from his...

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