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UN agency helps relocate 25,000 refugees from camp violence in Lebanon
United Nations aid workers operating at the Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that has been the scene of deadly clashes this week have now registered and relocated 25,000 people away from the fighting, the UN agency caring for them reported today.
' Massacre' at Lebanon refugee camp
Saad Touhan angrily holds out a piece of bloodied shrapnel. It passed through the stomach of her teenage daughter Manal, and wounded her in the hand as well.
Lebanon set for long haul over camp standoff
Lebanon is set for the long haul in a bid to peacefully end a standoff with Islamist militants holed up at a battered refugee camp, a government source said Sunday, as the two sides again traded gunfire after dark.
IOF offensive continues; 47 Killed and 189 wounded in Gaza
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued its offensive on Gazawhich started on 15 May 2007. Air strikes against Executive Force targets and other civilian facilities have been focused on Gaza City and occurred with more intensity at the late night hours.
Shortly after Olmert orders further attacks on Gaza, a warplane hits Deir
Just few hours after Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, ordered further attacks on the Gaza Strip, an Israeli warplane, hit today the Deir Elbalah town in central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes open fire at residential houses in southern Gaza
Israeli war planaed opened heavy fire early on Sunday morning at residential houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Kheza'a.
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Two Palestinians killed, four Israelis wounded in East Jerusalem
Two Palestinians opened fire at Israeli security guards and police in Sheikh Sa'ad neighborhood in East Jerusalem on Saturday afternoon.
Gen. Dayton admits US is helping Fatah
Congress recently allowed recently allowed $59 million to be used to further Dayton's efforts at training the presidential guard of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah.
Hamas to agree to hudna if Israel stops reprisals
Palestinian officials said yesterday that Hamas has informed Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that it is willing to accept a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on the condition that Israel halt its attacks.
PM to continue policy of pinpoint strikes on Hamas
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert adopted on Sunday the advice of the Shin Bet and IDF to continue, for the time being, pinpoint attacks against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. He also vowed that Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip would not be conditional on the behavior of militant Palestinian organizations.
Olmert vows to step up Gaza offensive
Ehud Olmert warned that a relentless offensive against Palestinian resistance fighters would continue after an Israeli man was killed by a rocket fired from Gaza.
Palestinian teenagers arrested despite HRW witnesses telling authorities that they did nothing wrong.
At approximately 15:00 hours on Saturday May 26, two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) were standing on Shuhada street in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron when five Israeli settlers between the ages of 7 and 10 years old walked past making faces and shouting remarks at both HRWs. The HRW passed onto Tel Rumeida street where they met two Palestinian teenagers who continued to walk up the hill, some distance behind the settlers.
Hamas: Journalist Kidnapped in Gaza Well
A British Broadcasting Corp. journalist kidnapped in Gaza is alive and well and could soon be released, a Palestinian government spokesman said.
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Only 11% Of UK adults support the war and occupation of Iraq
Only 17 per cent of respondents approve of the way Tony Blair is handling the current situation with Iraq, and just nine per cent feel the same way about George W. Bush
Infant mortality in Iraq soars as young pay the price for warFigures collated by the charity show that in 1990 Iraq's mortality rate for under-fives was 50 per 1,000 live births. In 2005 it was 125.
Right-wing campaign
The Homesh First organization launched a nation-wide public relations campaign Sunday calling for a "Return to Homesh," one of the four West Bank settlements evacuated during the disengagement nearly two years ago
Nearly half of Israel's factories pollute air
Forty-six percent of Israeli factories emit more air-pollutants than allowed in the Environmental Protection Ministry's guidelines, according to a samplings taken by the Environmental Protection Ministry in 2006.
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