July, 2006

• 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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• 21 July

  Iran promises response to Westren nuclear incentive package on August 22

  TEHRAN (AP) — Iran announced Thursday it would reply to the Western incentives on its nuclear programme on August 22 — the first time it has given a precise date after weeks of being accused of stalling.

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