Half of Israel soldiers 'flabby'
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A majority of soldiers in the regular Israeli army is overweight, a military publication says.
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In this battered village near the Israeli border, Hezbollah fighters are about the only people left. A handful of them were uneasy and distrustful as they talked Tuesday but united in their message: Morale is high and Israel will lose.
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Israeli soldiers carry the coffin, wrapped by an Israeli flag, of 22-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Yair Turgeman during his funeral in Jerusalem, Wednesday Oct 20, 2004.
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A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.
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Thank you for Molly Moore&#39;s excellent Nov. 29 front-page article, &quot;Checkpoints Take Toll on Palestinians, Israeli Army.&quot; It was insightful about the dehumanization that occurs at the checkpoints; the situation is appalling.
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In their first comment about the fate of two soldiers whose capture triggered a monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas last summer, Israeli officials said Wednesday the two were seriously wounded &#151; raising the prospect they may no longer be alive.
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Israel's government decided Thursday not to expand its battle with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon for now, but authorized the army to call up 30,000 reserve soldiers in case the fighting intensifies. Lebanese officials estimated a civilian death toll as high as 600.
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Israeli soldiers returning from the front in Lebanon talk of battling an intelligent, well-prepared and ruthless guerrilla army whose fighters don't seem to fear death.
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NABLUS, West Bank - A fierce Israeli army raid in a crowded West Bank refugee camp confined thousands to their homes yesterday for a third straight day, and residents said they were running out of food and water.
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JERUSALEMâAs soft targets go, the bus stop servicing the bland and boxy apartment blocks of French Hill is the down pillow of Israeli vulnerabilities.
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Israel says Jewish immigration has fallen to fewer than 20,000 in the last year.
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Some rabbis say soldiers should ignore orders to evacuate Gaza.
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Surveys released this week show that nearly 50 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip face dire poverty, while an increasing number of Israelis have also slipped below the poverty line.
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published yesterday. Security officials said in response to the report by the B'Tselem human rights group that the troops are operating under tough conditions to prevent Palestinian ...
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An ailing Yasser Arafat â-oo weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping â -eed to leave his battered West Bank compound for
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Some foot soldiers resented the praise heaped on Mughniyah, but Lebanon's Shi'ite movement  lost one of its most fearsome fighters
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The Army is getting a grudging response &#151; or none at all &#151; from hundreds of former soldiers it ordered back into uniform for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, although none has been declared AWOL.