Word: kfar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before dawn yesterday, soldiers on a routine patrol spotted the three guerrillas just north of the Kfar Yuval collective farm, chased them and opened fire, the army said in a statement...
...forces stepped up their attacks on Shi'ite villages, two members of a CBS News camera crew were killed and a third was seriously injured by a shell from an Israeli tank. The three men, all Lebanese citizens, had been photographing a burned-out car outside the village of Kfar Melki that was under attack by an Israeli raiding party. CBS sent off a protest to Israel's Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, for what the network said had been described by eyewitnesses as "an unprovoked and | deliberate attack by Israeli forces...
...because the delegates could not agree on where to gather. After a day of delicate negotiating, a neutral site for the newly formed "security committee" was chosen: a deserted bank building in the hamlet of Al Mahattah, halfway between the Druze town of Shuweifat and the Christian village of Kfar Shima, about three miles south of Beirut. Around 11 a.m. they began pulling up in their Land Rovers. Gathering in the same place were emissaries of the Lebanese Army, the Christian political alliance known as the Lebanese Front, the Druze-led National Salvation Front and the Amal...
...current troubles started in the Tel Aviv slum of Kfar Shalem, when Yisrael Yehoshua, a sanitation worker who migrated from Yemen 35 years ago, added a room to the two-room house that he and 18 relatives share. City authorities said that the addition was illegal, and sent a bulldozer, accompanied by an elite police squad, to tear it down. The family pleaded with the police to wait, pointing out that Yehoshua was in the process of obtaining a temporary court injunction barring the demolition, but the authorities refused to hold off". As the bulldozer rolled forward, Yehoshua...