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Full Coverage: Israel Attacks Lebanon (Part III)
Scoop.co.nz Full Coverage: Israel Attacks Lebanon - July 2006 – PART III
New
Zealand Govt. Backs UN Call For Ceasefire In Middle
East - Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that
New Zealand was strongly supporting the efforts of the UN
Secretary General to bring about an immediate ceasefire to
the conflict in the Middle East and to negotiate and
implement a solution to the crisis. See... NZ
backs efforts for Middle East ceasefire And ...PM
Pleads For Peace In Mid-East And Close To Home
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10 Beirut Apartment Buildings To Be Bombed For Every Haifa Missile Strike - IAF Officer - A high-ranking IAF officer caused a storm on Monday in an off-record briefing during which he told reporters that IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz had ordered the military to destroy 10 buildings in Beirut in retaliation to every Katyusha rocket strike on Haifa. The officer said that the equation was created by Halutz and that every rocket strike on Haifa would be answered by IAF missile strikes on 10 12-story buildings in the Beirut neighborhood of Dahiya, a Hizbullah stronghold. See... 10 Beirut Buildings Bombed For Each Haifa Missile See also... 150 Terrorists Liquidated Since Soldier Kidnapping
Dahr Jamail Reports From Beirut & Baghdad - Hundreds of Lebanese refugees languish in a city park in downtown Beirut. Fleeing southern Lebanon, as well as south Beirut, thousands have already made their way through this camp as they are farmed out to schools, abandoned buildings and anyone ... See... Dahr Jamail: "Aren't People Seeing All of This?" ---/--- "Habibi, to live in Baghdad now is to live in a big prison," he told me recently, "You stay in your home, and that's it. You only go out when you must. So many are being killed daily, and you only hope that your day to die is not today." See... Jamail: Lebanon Bleeds, Iraq Burns, People Flee
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BREAKING NEWS LINKS:
Tyre, Lebanon - Dirty
bandages hid the worst of 8-year-old Zainab Jawad's swollen,
bloodied nose Monday. Her arm, fractured in two places, was
strapped to her chest. See... Israel
Drops White Phosphorus Bombs On Children
New
York - The United Nations Security Council today
discussed the future of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon
(UNIFIL) as the force reported further heavy exchanges of
fire between Hezbollah and Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)
close to its positions in the south of the country. See...
Council
Debates UN Force in South
Lebanon
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Washington - A
delegation from Saudi Arabia asked President Bush on Sunday
to push for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and
the terrorist group Hezbollah - something the United States
has refused to do. See... Saudis
Urge Bush to Push for Cease-Fire in the ME
Rome - With violence continuing to tear through
Lebanon for a twelfth day, United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan leaves for Rome today for an international
meeting aimed at resolving the crisis, expressing hope that
concrete measures will emerge from discussions there. See...
Annan
Heads to Rome in Search of Lebanon
Measures
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London - Britain
dramatically broke ranks with George Bush last night over
the Lebanon crisis, publicly criticising Israel's military
tactics and urging America to 'understand' the price being
paid by ordinary Lebanese civilians. See... British
Split With Bush As Israeli Tanks Roll In
Jerusalem - Israeli officials believe they have approval
from the United States to keep up attacks on Hizbollah
guerrillas in Lebanon for at least another week, an Israeli
newspaper said on Sunday. See... Link:
US to Give Israel Another Week for Attacks
Beirut - Israel today called up reserve troops as it
appeared to prepare for a ground offensive in southern
Lebanon, warning residents to evacuate the border zone, as
its jets continued their relentless pounding of the country
from the air in the face ... See... Scoop
Link: Israel Gearing Up for Ground Offensive
Washington - The Bush administration is rushing a
delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which
requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning
its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon,
American officials said Friday. See... Link:
US Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
Am Johal
Reports From South Of The Blue Line -
Jerusalem/Ramallah - I am contemplating what is now known as
the Haifa Suitcase Dilemma. I left it in an apartment and
left with only a backpack last Sunday when the rockets
started to land. See... Am
Johal 100 Hours in the Holy Land. As US Secretary of
State Condolleeza Rice arrived in Israel to talk about the
possibility of a ceasefire, Jerusalem protesters were pushed
and shoved away from sight and in to the middle of the
street near the Citadel Hotel on King David Street on Monday
night. See... Security
Forces Arrest Jerusalem Peace Activists
MORE COMMENT ON THE LEBANON WAR:
Open Letter: Chomsky, Pinter, Zinn, Vidal, Klein, Ali on Israel and Palestine - The latest chapter of the conflict between Israel and Palestine began when Israeli forces abducted two civilians, a doctor and his brother, from Gaza. An incident scarcely reported anywhere, except in the Turkish press. The following day the Palestinians took an Israeli soldier prisoner - and proposed a negotiated exchange against prisoners taken by the Israelis - there are approximately 10,000 in Israeli jails. See... Chomsky, Pinter, Zinn, Vidal et al on Israel
Henri
Bou Saab in Beirut Reports On His War - It is now the
middle of summer in my village in Mount Lebanon, Dhour
el-Choueir. It is beautiful here, high up above the Sea, the
heavy heat of Beirut on the coast cannot reach us It is
Friday afternoon. Normally I would be down in that heat at
my business, trying to find some customers to buy the
beautiful Brazilian bathroom accessories that I sell. But
not today. Not yesterday, either. See... Christian
town opens arms to Moslem refugees
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LATEST COMMENT & OPINION:
ISRAEL AGAINST LEBANON AND GAZA - FIRST-SOURCE COVERAGE
World Watches Lebanon As Noose Tightens
On Palestine - Since around 5am this morning the
Israeli army has surrounded the Mukatah (local government
building) in Nablus with close to 100 military vehicles.
Israeli soldiers have occupied buildings nearby and they are
shooting into the Mukatah. This comes on the same day that
the Israelis stormed a government building in Ramallah,
arresting five people. They also stormed the office of the
Palestinian Wafa News Agency in a pre-dawn raid. The Israeli
military has bombed refugee camps, civillian infastructure
and government buildings in Gaza in the last few days,
killing many civllians. See... World
Watches Lebanon, Noose Tightens On Palestine
United Nations Releases On Lebanon:
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See also... Full Coverage: Israel Attacks Lebanon (Part II) & (Part I)
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