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70 articles tagged "Lebanon War Diary"
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DEBKAfile
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July 26, 2006, 4:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Wednesday, July 25, the IDF suffered a major reverse at Bin Jubeil where HIzballlah fighters regrouped and counter-attacked, inflicting heavy casualties on the Israel mopping-up force.
But other IDF contingents had meanwhile embarked on the next stage of the campaign in the Eastern Sector of South Lebanon. This came to light ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 25, 2006, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
After overwhelming the Hizballah stronghold of Bin Jubeil in southern Lebanon Tuesday July 25, Israeli armed ground forces and tanks are preparing to sweep forward to sanitize the town's satellites.
Israel lost two tank personnel: 1st Lieutenant Lotan Slavin, 21 from Moshav Hatzeva, and 1st Sgt Kobi Smileg, 20, from Rehovot. Hizballah ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 24, 2006, 12:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli forces have pushed forward from the mountaintop village of Maroun er Ras captured Sunday to the fringes of Bint Jubeil, Hizballah's south Lebanese capital. Monday they suffered nine wounded in face to face combat. Whereas TV cameras showed much footage of the Maroun er Ras engagement, the IDF's other ...
DEBKAfile
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July 23, 2006, 6:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
US officials are not yet saying so out loud, but in private and "on condition of anonymity," White House circles are signaling disappointment.
It arises from the expectation that the Israeli Defense Forces, the most effective Middle East army, would dispose of Hassan Nasrallah and his Hizballah in a few ...
DEBKAfile
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July 20, 2006, 12:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
This dramatic call will affect some 300,000 inhabitants, some of whom have already headed north in response to previous Israeli calls to withdraw from harm's way in Hizballah-controlled regions.
It is not clear how this mass migration can be effected when many of the roads and bridges were bombed out by ...
DEBKAfile
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July 20, 2006, 12:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The resolution by voice vote condemned Hizballah and its state sponsors Syria and Iran. President George W. Bush accused Syria of trying to get itself invited to return to Lebanon. He said Hizballah's attacks backed by Syria and Iran are the root cause of the violence and this should be ...
DEBKAfile
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July 20, 2006, 12:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Palestinian Jihad Islami, Ahmed Jibril's PFLP-General Command and Palestinian crime gangs based in S. Lebanon's Burj Shimali east of Tyre are leading the rocket offensive against Nahariya and coastal Galilee. Early Wednesday, an Israeli air raid struck a village house in this sector ...
DEBKAfile
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July 20, 2006, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
But the diplomats having nothing much to chew on so far are shuttling about aimlessly.
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DEBKAfile
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July 20, 2006, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Speaking to reporters in Paris, July 20, after meeting French President Jacques Chirac, Sultan said: "We cannot tolerate that Israel plays with the lives of citizens, civilians, women, old people and children."
DEBKAfile
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July 19, 2006, 12:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran`s parliament speaker warned no part of Israel is safe from Hizballah rockets. Sunday, July 16, Iranian leader Ali Khameini gave the Lebanese Shiite Lebanese terrorist group the ultimate guarantee when he said: Hizballah will never be disarmed.
DEBKAfile
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July 19, 2006, 12:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to the rough estimate of Israeli military intelligence, this loss leaves Hizballah with another 11 of these heavy weapons, although its stockpile may prove to be somewhat larger. The descent of the Zelzal shown on Lebanese TV gave rise to the false report that an Israeli warplane had been ...
DEBKAfile
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July 19, 2006, 12:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Reinforcements and medical teams are speeding across the border. Israeli force has tank and helicopter cover. Further Israel-Hizballah ground engagements in other border sectors of S. Lebanon.
DEBKAfile
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July 18, 2006, 11:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
The diplomats descending on Beirut and Jerusalem intent on swinging a ceasefire in the seven-day Israel-Hizballah war exchanges have come too early. The two sides are in full flight.
In Jerusalem at least, they have access to one of the principals, unlike Beirut. Except that Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 18, 2006, 12:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Saar-5 class corvette was damaged by a Hizballah missile on Saturday, 16 km. from the Beirut coast. The body of First Sgt Tal Amgar, 21, from Ashdod, was found onboard Saturday.
The bodies of missing crewmen Sgt. Yaniv Hershkovitch, 21, from Haifa, Corp. Shai Atias, 19, from Rishon Lezion and ...
DEBKAfile
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July 18, 2006, 12:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
First report of four people injured in Safed, one seriously. Israel steps up artillery pressure on S. Lebanon.
DEBKAfile
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July 18, 2006, 11:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
Lebanon reports up to 10 soldiers killed in another Israeli air attack over Hizballah strongholds in and around Beirut. There were more air strikes Monday overnight on Nabatiya in the south and Baalbek in the east. The forward Hizballah post in the Lebanese half of Ghajar village was destroyed.
Military ...
DEBKAfile
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July 18, 2006, 11:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
Some of the wounded are in serious condition. As rescue teams search pulled survivors out of the ruined building in Bat Galim another rocket volley hit the city. Sunday, the first rocket attack from Lebanon killed 8 Israeli civilians at a railway depot Sunday.
DEBKAfile
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July 18, 2006, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
The two officials were speaking about the Lebanese crisis in Washington Tuesday, July 18, at the outset of a strategic dialogue they agreed to hold. Answering a question about how much time the Bush administration would give the Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert, the US secretary of state said: We ...
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 8:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since the onset of the Israel-Hizballah war on July 12, US president George W. Bush never tires of repeating that Israel has the right to defend itself against terrorists and that it is up to Syria to press Hizballah to stop shooting rockets at Israel. Even Arab governments, which automatically ...
DEBKAfile
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July 17, 2006, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
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