Word: lebanons
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Stealing into enemy territory is always a risky venture, but Israeli military commanders didn't guess just how treacherous it would prove last week. In a botched special operation in southern Lebanon, Israel lost 11 elite commando fighters and a military doctor in a battle with local militias. It was the country's worst one-time loss in the 12 years it has maintained its "security zone" in southern Lebanon, a 5-mile-wide strip Israel occupies ostensibly to protect its northern border from attack. The debacle will undoubtedly sharpen opposition within Israel to continuing that presence...
...East peace process skidded to a halt in May 1996, when Netanyahu came to power and swore never to meet Syria's chief condition for peace: Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. But after a particularly brutal year for Israeli forces patrolling its self-declared "security zone" in south Lebanon ? where Syria has sufficient influence to damp down anti-Israeli activities ? there may be some room for negotiation...
JERUSALEM: Reeling from Thursday's triple suicide bombing that left four Israelis dead, and an Hizbollah ambush in Lebanon that took the lives of 11 Israeli crack troops, Israel appears ready to make good on its threats to invade Palestinian-ruled territory to root out Islamic militants...
Meanwhile, in the ongoing skirmish on the northern border, Israel has retaliated after yesterday's rocket attack by bombing a Hizballah base on the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. Two children were hurt when the roof of their house collapsed in eastern Lebanon...
...first time in 15 months, Katyusha rockets slammed into Israel this morning from Southern Lebanon. Katyushas are the signature weapon of Hizballah, and Israeli warplanes immediately retaliated -- despite the fact that the Islamic militant group had denied responsiblity. Never mind, say the guerillas: since everything's blowing up, we might as well resume rocket attacks after...