Israel widens Lebanon reprisals, 36 civilians die
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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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Israel approved a massive new ground offensive into southern Lebanon in an effort Wednesday to inflict further damage on Hezbollah and halt most rocket attacks before the U.N. Security Council demands a cease-fire.
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Hezbollah guerrillas fired more 100 rockets at Israeli towns on Wednesday &#151; raising the total since the start of the conflict to 3,333 &#151; including several medium-range missiles that landed near the West Bank town of Jenin and south of the Israeli city of Afula, police said.
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Israeli warplanes pounded south Lebanon   on Tuesday, killing at least six people, as diplomatic efforts   brought no signs of an early end to the week-old assault   launched in retaliation against Hizbollah attacks.
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Responding to rocket fire, Israel has escalated strikes on Gaza, killing at least 50 Palestinians.
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More Israeli troops poured into Lebanon   on Saturday, capturing a broader swathe of territory in heavy   fighting with Hizbollah guerrillas, as both sides said they   would obey a U.N. resolution on a truce -- but not yet.
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Hizbollah rockets killed 12 soldiers and   at least three civilians in Israel on Sunday, the deadliest day   of the war for Israel, as Lebanon rejected a draft U.N.   resolution to end the 26-day-old conflict.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 23 -- Lebanese army and government officials pledged Wednesday to renew their assault on a Palestinian refugee camp unless an Islamic extremist group barricaded inside surrendered. Such an attack could cause more civilian deaths following what one international human...
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Lebanese troops opened fire Monday on Israeli warplanes over southern Lebanon, the military said Â the second time they have done so since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire ended a 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in August 2006.
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Israel scattered at least 350,000   unexploded cluster bomblets on south Lebanon in its war with   Hizbollah, mostly when the conflict was all but over, leaving a   deadly legacy for civilians, U.N. officials said on Tuesday.
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Israel wants an expanded U.N. force to help monitor the Lebanese border to prevent Iran and Syria from replenishing Hezbollah's weapons, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Wednesday.
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Hizbollah fired more rockets into Israel   on Wednesday than on any previous day of the 22-day-old war,   after helicopter-borne commandos attacked guerrilla targets in   Israel's deepest raid into Lebanon.
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Israeli air strikes killed 17 people in   Lebanon on Monday and Hizbollah announced more rocket attacks   on Israel after major world powers put the onus on the Syrian-   and Iranian-backed Shi'ite group to end the fighting.
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Twenty-three Palestinians and three Israelis were killed as Israel's army struck back after a rocket attack.
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BEIRUT, Aug. 29 -- An international human rights group has concluded that Lebanon's Hezbollah movement indiscriminately attacked civilians during its conflict with Israel last summer, a finding that prompted denunciations from both the Lebanese government and Hezbollah.
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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip -- Israel widened its offensive in the Gaza Strip yesterday, as troops killed nine Palestinians, bringing the five-day death toll to 57 in the largest operation in Gaza since fighting began four years ago.
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Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold Tuesday and widened their foothold in southern Lebanon, but officials said Israeli bombs killed six people in a south Lebanon town and two U.N. observers in a border outpost with two other peacekeepers feared dead.