Word: naqoura
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...multiple air strikes and heavy artillery bombardments and -in the past few days - raids by Israeli special forces, Hizballah in some places is still firing rockets into Israel from mobile batteries deployed within a few hundred yards of the border. One such location is on a hill outside Naqoura riddled with Hizballah bunkers from where the Lebanese guerrillas have fired dozens of rockets within full view of the border and Israeli military outposts...
...border road running east from the coastal village of Naqoura, where UNIFIL has its local headquarters, hugs the frontier, coming in some places to within two hundred yards of the fence. No Israeli soldiers were to be seen even though the border road technically lies behind the Israeli army's frontline in some places. Still, the Israeli military activity was manifest in the numerous tank tracks that criss-cross the border road and run through fields of bright green tobacco plants. The border road, a potholed single-lane route even in normal times, is pockmarked from exploding artillery rounds...
...UNIFIL'S headquarters runs for half a mile along a broad stretch of rocky coastline in the village of Naqoura, one mile north of the border with Israel. From an old French mandate customs house in the center of the base, UNIFIL's top staff are assessing how to best protect and provide assistance to the beleaguered population of south Lebanon, but also how to keep running themselves...