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MEHEBA, Zambia—Jean Zawadi doesn’t look like a fighter at first glance. With her tightly twisted hair, colorful “chitenge” (skirt) and sorrowful eyes, Jean paints the picture of a powerless African refugee, rather than a crusader for justice. And because Jean is both of these things, she is now in serious danger.A few months ago, Jean’s fourteen-year-old daughter Dayaka was raped in Meheba Refugee Camp. She is now pregnant, out of school, and severely depressed. Her desperate mother has gone to the police, camp NGOs...
...missile attack. This source says that an army spotter saw Hizballah firing from an area near the U.N. building but locked into the U.N. building by mistake. He then passed the precise coordinates on to the air force control, who relayed the target site to one of the fighter planes circling overhead. But the Northern Command is insisting that it relayed the correct coordinates to the air force, pinpointing suspected Hizballah positions and not the U.N. bunker nearby...
...That's what men said when women wanted to fly fighter jets," responded...
...location of more weaponry, more leaders, perhaps even Nasrallah himself. It could also mean more surprises or more casualties: two soldiers were killed and several others injured in the past two days when militants ambushed IDF troops who crossed into Lebanon to destroy Hizballah outposts. Only one Hizballah fighter was announced killed...
...current outbreak of hostilities with Hizballah and the ongoing operations in Gaza. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of the current crisis is that a one-time member of Peace Now, a champion of social welfare issues and a negotiated two-state solution, is the man sending fighter jets over Beirut. Defense Minister Amir Peretz, once known mainly for championing issues like raising Isreel's minimum wage, is now, on two fronts, waging...