Israel, Hezbollah step up attacks as cease-fire deadline nears//Israeli Cabinet OKs U.N. resolution By Hum Bahadur K.C.
13August2006-Israeli troops battled Hizbollah guerrillas across southern
Lebanon on Sunday and air strikes battered Beirut’s suburbs as the Israeli army pressed on with its offensive in the hours until a U.N.-brokered truce begins.
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U.N.: Cease-fire begins Monday/Lebanon Cabinet member: Hezbollah won’t disarm in U.N. region By Hum Bahadur K.C. The U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel will begin at 8 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) Monday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a taped statement Saturday.
12August2006-U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced that a
cease-fire in the Hezbollah- Israel fighting will take effect at 8 a.m. Lebanese time (1 a.m. EDT) Monday. । (more…)
Israel votes to push deeper into Lebanon/Military campaign’s expansion aimed at Hezbollah rocket launchers By Hum Bahadur k.C. Israel’s Security Cabinet votes to expand the military campaign against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Israeli ground forces are expected to push up to the Litani River, 18 miles inside Lebanon, to try to eliminate Hezbollah rocket launchers before any U.N. cease-fire resolution is passed.
9August2006-Israel’s Security Cabinet on Wednesday approved a wider
ground offensive in south Lebanon that was expected to take 30 days as part of a new push to badly damage Hezbollah, a Cabinet minister said. The Security Cabinet authorized troops to push to the Litani River some 18 miles from the Israel-Lebanon border. Currently, some 10,000 soldiers are fighting Hezbollah in a four-mile stretch from the frontier. । (more…)
Lebanon urges U.N. on Israeli withdrawal/ Hezbollah rockets pound Haifa By Hum Bahadur K.C. -A heavy barrage of Hezbollah rockets hit the port city of Haifa, Israel, Sunday evening, killing three people and wounding about 100 people, police and ambulance services said. Earlier in the day, 12 soldiers were killed when a Hezbollah rocket hit a building in northern Israel. The Hezbollah barrage came after Israeli airstrikes left at least eight civilians dead in Lebanon)
6August2006-Lebanon urged the U.N. Security Council Sunday to revise
a resolution aimed at ending the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting to demand that Israel pull its forces out of the country once hostilities end and hand over its positions to U.N. peacekeepers. । (more…)
Nepal to seize royal lands, king to be "normal citizen" By Hum Bahadur K.C. -After taxing King Gyanendra’s assets and income, the Nepal Government is planning to place a ceiling on land owned by him and distribute the remaining among poor farmers)
5August2006-Nepal plans to seize lands owned by King Gyanendra and
other royal family members and distribute them to the poor as it moves toward treating the monarch like a "normal citizen," a minister said. । (more…)
Israel smashes bridges, roads into Beirut/Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon bury 57 By Hum Bahadur K.C. -Israeli police confirm two or three rockets hit the Hadera area — furthest point yet south of the Lebanese border.))–Israeli aircraft blasted main roadways north of Beirut for the first time in the three-week conflict on Friday, knocking out four key bridges)
4August2006-Israeli air strikes killed at least 40 civilians in Lebanon and a
Hizbollah rocket barrage into Israel killed three people on Friday in a worsening conflict that world powers disagree on how to halt. । (more…)
Mideast war rages with no end in sight,Israel: Hospital was a terror HQ By Hum Bahadur K.C. Israel’s military has released video it says proves a hospital it raided overnight in Lebanon was actually a Hezbollah headquarters. Hezbollah disputes the Israeli military account, saying civilians were arrested, and Lebanese Internal Security Forces say 16 people died)
2August2006-Lebanon - Hezbollah fired its biggest and deepest volley of
rockets into Israel on Wednesday as Israel pursued the guerrillas with 8,000 soldiers on the ground and heavy bombing. With fighting in its fourth week and diplomatic efforts stalled, the region braced for a bitter and long war. । (more…)
Israeli air attack kills 60 civilians, including 19 children/ Strike was ‘mistake’said Israel; Rice returning to Washington By Hum Bahadur K.C.
30July2006-Israel said it mistakenly destroyed a four-story building near a
Hezbollah rocket-launching site in Qana, Lebanon, on Sunday where officials said 60 people died, including 19 children. । (more…)
Israel Defense Forces killed two Islamic Jihad militants in the West Bank,Olmert meet after Israel rejects U.N. call for cease-fire By Hum Bahadur K.C.
29July2006-Hezbollah’s leader on Saturday threatened more attacks on
central Israeli cities, a day after guerrillas for the first time fired a rocket powerful enough to reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv. । (more…)
Bush, Blair call for Mideast cease-fire,Multinational force proposed for southern Lebanon By Hum Bahadur K.C. -U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announce their support for a U.N. cease-fire resolution to end the Mideast crisis and a multinational force to help with humanitarian relief.)
28July2006- US President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair
said Friday they want an international force dispatched quickly to the Mideast but said any plan to end the fighting must address long-running regional disputes to be effective. The leaders, standing side by side in the White House’s East Room after meeting in the Oval Office, said they want to see a U.N. resolution introduced next week. It is aimed at ending the more than 2-week-old battle between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. । (more…)
Al Qaeda: War with Israel is ‘jihad’,Says Arab and Islamic governments complicit; Muslims must fight By Hum Bahadur K.C. Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq.")
27July2006-Al-Qaeda second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri has vowed
that the network would carry out attacks against Israel and its US backers to avenge the Israeli offensives against Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. । (more…)
8 Israeli soldiers killed in close fighting,4 U.N. observers die in Israeli airstrike; peace talks stall By Hum Bahadur K.C. -Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting with Hezbollah militiamen in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces says. The violence came as talks between key Middle East players, aimed at ending the conflict, failed to reach agreement on an immediate cease-fire)
26July2006-Israel on Wednesday suffered its heaviest losses in Lebanon
in its offensive against Hezbollah, with militants killing eight soldiers in a battle for a key town. A top Israeli commander said he expected the campaign to last "several more weeks." Officials confirmed that four U.N. observers died in an Israeli airstrike on their post Tuesday night. । (more…)
Hezbollah rockets strike northern Israel,Israel bombs ‘terror capital’ in southern Lebanon By Hum Bahadur K.C. A 15-year-old girl was killed, several people were hurt and a man died of a heart attack as Hezbollah rockets rained down on northern Israel. Meanwhile Israeli strikes hit Tyre in Lebanon, and there were huge explosions in southern Beirut. Lebanese sources said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is proposing an ambitious plan with up to two international military forces to help stabilize the situation in Lebanon.
25July2006-Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold in fierce
fighting in south Lebanon and warplanes struck this market city Tuesday, killing six people. Guerrillas fired rockets at northern Israel, killing a girl, as the two-week-old crisis showed no signs of letting up, despite frantic diplomatic efforts. । (more…)
Israeli bombs, Hezbollah rockets keep coming,Rice heads to region Sunday as diplomatic efforts continue BY Hum Bahadur K.C.
23July2006-Israel hit Lebanese cities with deadly missiles and Hezbollah
rockets killed two people in the Israeli port city of Haifa on Sunday, the 12th day of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. । (more…)
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