Word: maghdousheh
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Dates: during 2007-2007
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...Beirut, Sidon and Tyre. Off the Lebanese coast, Israeli gunboats delivered a barrage of rockets at the refugee camps near Sidon. At least 400 people have been killed and 900 wounded in the savage fighting since Nov. 24, when P.L.O. forces seized strategic hilltop positions from Amal defenders in Maghdousheh, 25 miles south of Beirut. In retaliation, Shi'ite militiamen mounted a tank-and-artillery attack on the Shatila refugee camp south of Beirut. Arafat promptly appealed to Arab leaders to help stop the "dangerous and beastly aggression," which he blamed on another old enemy, Syrian President Hafez Assad...
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