Israel pounds south Lebanon
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Israel launched a heavy air and   artillery bombardment of south Lebanon on Thursday after nine   Israeli soldiers were killed in the Jewish state's worst 24   hours for casualties in a 16-day-old conflict against   Hizbollah.
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, intensifying reprisals   that have killed 47 civilians since Lebanese Hizbollah fighters   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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Israeli warplanes attacked two militant bases in southern Lebanon in response to a rocket attack against northern Israel on Sunday, the Israeli army and Lebanese security officials said.
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Israel is hit in a twin rocket attack from Lebanon, in the first strike since the 2006 conflict with Hezbollah.
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Israel's military said Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets into southern Lebanon early Tuesday. None hit inside Israel and no injuries were reported.
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Israeli warplanes attacked suspected Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese security officials said. The raid came after the guerrillas said they blew up an Israeli bulldozer in a disputed area near the border, reportedly causing casualties.
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Israeli air strikes killed 17 people in   Lebanon on Monday and Hizbollah announced more rocket attacks   on Israel after world powers put the onus on the Syrian- and   Iranian-backed Shi'ite guerrilla group to end the fighting.
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Israeli troops entered southern Gaza and planes attacked two bridges and a power station, knocking out electricity in most of the coastal strip early Wednesday and stepping up the pressure on Palestinian militants holding captive a 19-year-old Israeli soldier.
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The war in Lebanon has badly bruised the Israeli government and boosted Hezbollah's standing in the Arab world. Israel says it has made some gains &#151; the Lebanese army, backed by international troops, is to take control of south Lebanon.
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Lebanese troops opened fire Thursday on Israeli warplanes flying low over southern Lebanon but no hits were reported, Lebanese officials said
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Israeli jets pounded Lebanon and troops   battled Hizbollah guerrillas on Thursday while world powers   struggled for a plan to end a war which Beirut said has killed   900 people and wounded 3,000.
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More Israeli tanks and soldiers surged into southern Lebanon on Saturday, reaching the Litani River and engaging in some of the heaviest ground combat of the monthlong war just hours after the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire plan.
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Backed by tanks, Israeli troops battled their way to a key Hezbollah stronghold in south Lebanon on Monday, seizing a hilltop in heavy fighting and capturing two guerrillas. The U.S. completed its evacuation of 12,000 Americans and said it would switch to bringing in humanitarian aid.
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Israel and Hezbollah fought bloody ground battles and exchanged fierce air and missile strikes Friday &#151; including bombing raids that severed Lebanon's last major supply link with Syria and the outside world, and the guerrillas' deepest rocket attack inside Israel to date.
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   Hizbollah television and began enforcing a naval blockade of   Lebanon on Thursday, intensifying reprisals after Hizbollah   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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Nineteen Israeli soldiers were killed Saturday during an expanded offensive in Lebanon, the army said, making it the highest one-day toll for the Jewish state since the war against Hezbollah erupted.
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Militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza bombarded southern Israel with rockets Thursday and Israel pounded back with air and ground fire