Israel widens Lebanon reprisals
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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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QASMIYEH, Lebanon  - Israel's government   authorised on Wednesday what it called a severe response after   the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah captured two soldiers   and killed eight others in cross-border attacks.
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Israel has begun thinning out its troops in southern Lebanon and plans hand over the first of its captured positions to the Lebanese army on Wednesday, the army said.
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Developments Thursday in Israel's offensives against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Palestinian militants in Gaza:
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Lebanon's military says it has fired anti-aircraft rounds against Israeli jet fighters violating its airspace.
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Israeli commandos raided a Hezbollah stronghold deep in Lebanon on Saturday, engaging in a fierce gunbattle, and the Lebanese government threatened to halt further troop deployments to protest what U.N. officials called a violation of the 6-day-old cease-fire.
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Analysis: Israel's widening counterattacks against Lebanon threaten not only the country's fragile economic rebirth, but an entire region's tenuous stability
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Mideast diplomats were pressing Syria to stop backing Hezbollah as the guerrillas fired more deadly rockets onto Israel's third-largest city Sunday. Israel faced tougher-than-expected ground battles and bombarded targets in southern Lebanon, hitting a convoy of refugees.
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Following consultation with senior security officials Thursday afternoon, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided to widen the IDF&#39;s operation in the northern Gaza Strip in response the increasing attacks generating from the area.
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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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Lebanon accused Israel on Friday of launching &quot;a widespread barbaric aggression&quot; aimed at bringing the small Mideast nation to its knees and urged the international community to end the military offensive.
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Israel struck Hizbollah targets and   devastated a wide array of Lebanese civilian installations on   Friday, drawing mounting world criticism of its tactics since   Shi'ite fighters seized two of its soldiers and killed eight.
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Israel's Security Cabinet approved early Tuesday widening the ground offensive in Lebanon and rejected a cease-fire until an international force is in place, a participant in the meeting said.
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JERUSALEMâPrime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, described by aides as more angry than embarrassed over parliament&#39;s symbolic repudiation of his term-opening speech, moved yesterday to renew discussions with opposition parties aimed at expanding his
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  launched new efforts on Tuesday to widen his shaky coalition  after a stinging setback in parliament that complicated his  plan to withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  launched new efforts Tuesday to widen his shaky coalition after  a stinging setback in parliament that complicated his plan to  withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday renewed his criticism of Israel's military offensive in Lebanon, calling it a "new Holocaust."