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...Reported by Lisa Beyer/Tel Aviv, Dean Fischer/Washington, Aharon Klein/Qiryat Shemona and Lara Marlowe/Qana

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DARK WITH BLOOD | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...three miles into Israel. Israeli soldiers posted in south Lebanon heard the strange vehicle, but the helicopter gunships dispatched to identify the intruder could not find it. Finally, the hang glider landed with a thud in a field of thistles just north of the Israeli town of Qiryat Shemona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Death from the Skies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...Israelis living in the frontier town Qiryat Shemona knew that casualties from rocket attacks launched across the border in southern Lebanon would come sooner or later. Last week the inevitable happened. A single Soviet-made Katyusha rocket hit a school yard, injuring four children and one teacher. It was the second such assault on northern Israel in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Sense of Vulnerability | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Operation Peace for Galilee," Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, was supposed to end such attacks. Last summer Israeli troops withdrew from most of Lebanon, and there is little appetite for another full- scale incursion. But for many Israelis, the wounded at Qiryat Shemona dramatically underscored the continued vulnerability of the northern border region. Just 90 minutes after the attack, Israeli fighter planes bombed two buildings near Palestinian refugee camps outside the port city of Sidon that were reputed to be headquarters for Fatah, the P.L.O. guerrilla faction. At least ten people were killed and 25 were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Sense of Vulnerability | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...ceremonies, conducted in a second-class hotel in the Beirut suburb of Khalde and three hours later in a community cultural center in the Israeli border town of Qiryat Shemona, were aptly symbolic. In the Khalde ceremony, Lebanese Negotiator Antoine Fattal held his chin in knit fingers, and his eyes were downcast. He applauded politely but without enthusiasm when his Israeli counterpart, David Kimche, made a brief speech praising the agreement that was about to be signed. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel summed up his countrymen's attitude when he later declared, "Lebanon is not holding celebrations today. Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: No Cause for Celebration | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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