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• Jittery Lebanese brace for worst

  - 2008-03-12

  TYRE, Lebanon AFP — Hezbollah's recent threat of open war on Israel and Lebanon's seemingly endless political crisis have many jittery Lebanese getting their passports ready to flee the country or renting apartments in "safe" regions. Officials in southern Lebanon, which bore the brunt of the 2006 war between...

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• Lebanese army shoots at Israeli jets

  - 2008-01-21

  TYRE, Lebanon AFP — The Lebanese army on Monday opened fire on Israeli warplanes as they flew over the south of the country in violation of Lebanon's airspace, police said. "The army's anti-aircraft units fired at four Israeli jets overflying the south on two occasions between 9:00 am and...

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• UN peacekeepers prove blessing for south Lebanon economy

  - 2007-10-13

  TYRE, Lebanon AFP — Traders in Tyre's bustling souk say UN peacekeepers have brought "baraka" and a dose of good fortune to south Lebanon, making up at least in part for the ravages of last year's Israel-Hezbollah war. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL has spent millions...

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• Israeli aircraft swoop low over Lebanon

  - 2007-09-18

  TYRE, Lebanon AFP — Israeli warplanes made low-altitude passes over southern Lebanon, in defiance of a UN ceasefire resolution, Lebanese police said Tuesday. Six aircraft violated Lebanese airspace from 10:00 am (0700 GMT), swooping low over the port cities of Sidon and Tyre where they caused sonic booms, police...

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• UN food agency to help farmers in southern Lebanon

  - 2007-08-08

  ROME AFP — The UN food agency on Wednesday announced plans to help small farmers get back to work after months of interruption caused by last years war with Israel and unexploded ordnance in their fields. An initial assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organisation after the war estimated...

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• Lebanese army pounds Islamist siege camp

  - 2007-07-11

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Six Lebanese soldiers were killed Thursday during a heavy assault on a refugee camp the army says signals the "first step" in a final battle against Islamist fighters holed up there for almost eight weeks. Vast clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky...

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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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• Palestinians in Lebanon siege camp running out of supplies

  - 2007-07-04

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Palestinian groups and aid workers said on Wednesday they are working to protect hundreds of refugees believed to be trapped by deadly fighting around a camp in north Lebanon and running out of supplies. Lebanese security services, meanwhile, said three Islamist fighters were killed...

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• Concern mounts for Palestinians in Lebanon siege camp

  - 2007-07-01

  NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon AFP — Relief workers appealed to the Lebanese army on Sunday for access to hundreds of refugees inside a besieged Palestinian camp, six weeks into a battle between soldiers and Islamists. "The humanitarian situation is getting worse and worse," said Virginia de la Guardia of the...

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