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July, 2006
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21 July
Israel warns that offensive will continue : Strikes against Hezbollah enter 10th day in Lebanon
Also on Friday, two Israeli Apache attack helicopters crashed in northern Israel after colliding in midair, the Israel Defense Forces said. The pilot was killed and three others on board the copters were injured.
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21 July
Hezbollah leader apologizes for attack’s child victims
In a Thursday interview with Arabic-language news network Al-Jazeera, Nasrallah accepted responsibility for the Wednesday attack, while conceding that an apology to the family was not sufficient.
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21 July
Pace of U.S. evacuations quickens
On Thursday about 2,250 Americans left Lebanon, and another 3,000 are expected to depart Friday, State Department officials said.
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21 July
Kidnapped soldiers’ kin: Stop the killing
Speaking to CNN from Haifa, Israel, the wife and father of Ehud Goldwasser, 31, and the brother of Eldad Regev, 26,
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21 July
Military analysts question bombing of civilians
DUBAI — Thousands of Israeli bombs have fallen on Lebanon’s homes, roads, bridges, ports, broadcasting towers and even a lighthouse.
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21 July
Hizbollah battles Israel in Lebanon
HIZBOLLAH FOUGHT FIERCE battles with Israeli troops on the Lebanese border Thursday, as thousands more foreigners fled the nine-day-old war in Lebanon, including 1,000 Americans evacuated by US Marines.
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21 July
Tel Aviv begins to doubt offensive
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — After nine days of bombing Lebanon, Israel has begun to doubt the effectiveness of an offensive that has failed to stop Hizbollah fire, eliminate its leaders or push fighters back from the border.
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21 July
Palestinians killed in Gaza offensive
GAZA CITY (AP) — Israeli forces killed three people and wounded six in the Gaza Strip, officials said Thursday,
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21 July
30,000 more flee as Iraq violence deepens
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Tens of thousands more Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence looks ever more like civil war two months after a US-backed national unity government was formed, official data showed on Thursday.
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