Word: nabatiyeh
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...There appeared to be more than refugees among the traffic. Three young men of fighting age in a yellow taxi heading north among the refugees claimed to have just come from the front in Nabatiyeh. Each wore short beards in the style of Hizballah fighters and all grinned when asked about the fighting. When asked about casualties, they declined to say, but only said, "God will compensate" for any losses...
...NABATIYEH, Lebanon: Israel's "security zone" in southern Lebanon has turned into a war zone once again. Hezbollah guerrillas and the Israeli army have been trading deadly blows since Thursday, when a clash resulted in the death of one of the guerrillas. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, local time, Hezbollah responded by peppering an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the zone with machine-gun fire and mortar shells, killing one Israeli soldier and wounded three others, according to Israeli security officials. Israel gunners retaliated with three hours of heavy artillery fire on suspected guerrilla hideouts in the vicinity of villages...
...NABATIYEH, Lebanon: Israel's "security zone" in southern Lebanon has turned into a war zone once again. Hezbollah guerrillas and the Israeli army have been trading deadly blows since Thursday, when a clash resulted in the death of one of the guerrillas. At 5:30 a.m. Friday, local time, Hezbollah responded by peppering an Israeli-occupied border enclave in the zone with machine-gun fire and mortar shells, killing one Israeli soldier and wounded three others, according to Israeli security officials. Israel gunners retaliated with three hours of heavy artillery fire on suspected guerrilla hideouts in the vicinity of villages...
...tightest security sweeps since the invasion, members of the Israeli Defense Forces responded with intensive postmidnight house-to-house searches in the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon, Tyre and Nabatiyeh. At least 100 people were arrested. Checkpoints along the coastal highway were the scene of huge traffic jams throughout the week as Israeli soldiers searched all vehicles. Even so, one bomb was set off near an Israeli outpost south of Sidon, wounding a soldier, and a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Israeli truck on the highway. Reflecting the jittery atmosphere, an Israeli colonel in Sidon pointed...
...Thursday, Israeli planes destroyed six important bridges in southern Lebanon, thereby cutting the main roads south from Beirut and isolating such Palestinian strongholds as Nabatiyeh, Tyre and Hasbaya. Then on Friday morning, in their fifth strike within seven days, the Israelis launched their assault on Beirut, hitting not only at Palestinian and Syrian positions near Beirut airport and the Kuwaiti embassy but also at the Shatila refugee camp. On Saturday, as Israeli planes made still another raid on southern Lebanon, Palestinian guerrillas lobbed a few more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope...