Lebanon: Thousands flee fighting as army accused of shelling relief convoy

BEDDAWI, 23 May 2007 (IRIN) - At least 10,000 Palestinians from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon have fled to neighbouring Beddawi camp following a lull in fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants, according to an official in one of the schools over-run with an influx of displaced people.

The Palestinian Human Rights Organization – PHRO Field Monitor in Naher El-Bared Camp reported that the number of the civilian victims (dead and wounded) are rapidly increasing and that the food and medical stuffs are in route to penetrate, and the Palestinian Refugees there are urgently calling and appealing to all the humanitarian bodies to intervene to put an end to the incident deterioration.

Date : 2007-05-21

Clashes between the Lebanese army and the armed group Fatah al-Islam at Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp have left at least 14 civilians dead and 120 injured, including 22 children, according to Save the Children Alliance and its partners working at the camp near Tripoli.

Samidoun South Lebanon Projects in TYR and in Aita El Shaeb are in need of Proffessional VOlunteers in the following fields:

- Architecture Students or Graduates, no experience needed (URGENT)
The Aita El Shaeb Base is helping the community in the reconstruction phase and it is as well trying to maintain the heritage and history of village by trying to safe-keep the architecture and social organization of the Old Village, and for such it needs Architects to help the Reconstruction unit in their work. for more information call Ismail @ 03-245991 if you find the phone is out of connection or off please send a message and he will call you back.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given the green light for the Jewish State to set up a special office to develop a nanotechnology arsenal, the leading Hebrew daily reported on Friday.
Yediot Aharonot said that Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres had been told to choose 15 top thinkers to focus on developing futuristic weaponry. The 15 would be selected from within the security establishment, the world of hi-tech and academia.

Even the closest friends of the Bush family don't dare say anything about Iraq that approximates what Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told President George W. Bush in their recent meeting at the White House. For having made even more guarded statements than Olmert's declaration that the peoples of the Middle East should be grateful to America and to Bush for the operation in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a number of Republican congressmen were forced to retire. Robert Gates, designated to replace Rumsfeld, would certainly not sign off on Olmert's observation that the war in Iraq made a "dramatic positive contribution" to security and stability in the region. Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's close ally, would probably not have replied like Olmert to a question about a possible withdrawal from Iraq that he doesn't know that America is weighing a withdrawal.

LEBANON: Images of War
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Cluster Bombs & Israel's 2006 Military Attack on LEBANON.

A Presentation from HABBOUBA AOUN of the Landmine Resource Center in
Beirut on
Israeli Cluster Bombs & their impact on the Lebanese people.

Israel's army chief launched an investigation into the military's use of cluster bombs in Lebanon, following media reports that he had not authorized wide use of the controversial munitions in fighting.

Norway is pushing for an international meeting on cluster bombs that it hopes will lead to a worldwide treaty restricting the use of the munitions.
The move follows the failure of a United Nations conference to agree any curbs on cluster weapons.

Poll: U.S. 'Big Loser' in Eyes of Lebanese after Isarel's War
Israel's summer war with Hizbullah cost the United States dearly in the good will of the Lebanese, a poll taken just over a month after the violence found.
Part of the Gallup World Poll project, the survey released in Washington Tuesday, compared findings from its latest canvass, in August, 2005.