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...position to say they are in control of the area. They are proceeding very slowly. They are being very cautious and Hizballah is putting up a fight in places of its own choosing," a senior U.N. official in Lebanon says. That much was evident when TIME joined a convoy run by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) - the 2,000-member-strong peacekeeping force that has been in the region since 1978 - carrying humanitarian supplies to some of the beleaguered villages along the border whose remaining residents have either chosen to chance their luck by staying in their...
...Sunni village of Jibbayn, panic-stricken residents beg the UNIFIL convoy for lifts to the comparative safety of Tyre, a coastal town that so far has remained relatively immune to the Israeli assault. But the UNIFIL peacekeepers are under orders not to transport civilians from the area, so the disappointed villagers, a few aged men and women, shoulder the brown cardboard boxes of food and stalk resignedly back to their homes. Israeli troops have deployed at the northern end of Jibbayn, cutting the road to Teir Harfa village to which the UNIFIL convoy was hoping to proceed. "The Israelis have...
...With the road cut by the Israelis, Warrant Officer Martin Lionel, the convoy commander, studies his military map, seeking an alternative route to Teir Harfa. Many of the roads marked on his map show hand-drawn red crosses. He explains that they represent bomb craters where Israeli jets have rendered the road impassable. "Every day we add new crosses," he says...
...soldiers are their former comrades-in-arms, militiamen are often allowed to roam unchecked. They are routinely accused of conducting "joint operations"--a euphemism for murderous rampages that police watch or even join. Sometimes police are accused of moonlighting as militiamen, using official vehicles and weapons. A three-car convoy belonging to Sunni M.P. Tayseer al-Mashhadani was stopped last month by 30 gunmen in a Shi'ite suburb. Al-Mashhadani and seven bodyguards were bundled into unmarked cars and driven away. An eighth bodyguard escaped and reported that the abductors had police-issue weapons. Al-Mashhadani hasn't been...
...major road-route to and from Lebanon for the first time since the current conflict began. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacks destroyed buildings at the site, as well as what they said was a Hizballah-bound arms shipment, which the Lebanese claimed was part of a relief convoy. And, on Sunday, a landmine was triggered - perhaps accidentally, perhaps deliberately - along the Syrian boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, near Quneitra. No injuries were reported...