Lebanon justifies Hezbollah droneâs flight over Israel
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BEIRUT - A Lebanese minister on Monday justified the launch by the militant Hezbollah Shiite group of an unmanned plane over Israel, saying the Jewish state constantly violated Lebanese airspace and ignored international protests.
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Israeli warplanes are still flying over southern Lebanon despite appeals for them to halt the missions, the outgoing commander of a United Nations peacekeeping mission said on Friday.
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Developments Sunday in Israel's offensive against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon:
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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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NAQOURA, Lebanon  - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla  group said on Sunday it sent a small reconnaissance drone into  Israel for the first time in response to repeated Israeli  violations of Lebanese airspace.
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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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The Lebanese insist a disputed 10-mile-square area of land is theirs, and Hezbollah says it will not lay down its weapons until Israel gives it back.
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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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Developments in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
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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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Hezbollah sent a reconnaissance drone into Israeli territory over northern Jewish settlements Sunday in the first hostile aerial incursion from Lebanon since a hang glider attack 17 years ago killed six soldiers.
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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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&quot;Israel mercenaries assisting the Ivory Coast army operated unmanned aircraft that aided aerial bombings of a French base in the country,&quot; claimed
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Israel's Cabinet became the final party to sign on to the U.N. cease-fire deal Sunday, while Israeli planes blasted Beirut and ground troops battled Hezbollah in south Lebanon seeking to batter the militant Islamic group in the hours before fighting stopped. Hezbollah hit back with its heaviest rocket barrage of the war on northern Israel.
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Lebanese government forces have been deployed along the border with Israel for the first time in decades.
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The flight over Israel of an unmanned Hezbollah spy plane has deeply embarrassed the Jewish Air Force, which has prided itself for decades on having total control of the region&#39;s skies.
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Israel agreed Sunday to halt air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.