Israel calls Hizbollah capture of soldiers act of war
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QASMIYEH, Lebanon  - Hizbollah guerrillas captured   two Israeli soldiers and killed at least seven on Wednesday in   what Israel described as an act of war by Lebanon that would   draw a "very painful" response.
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Two Israeli soldiers captured by the   Hizbollah guerrilla group will not be released unless there are   talks with Israel about the exchange of Lebanese prisoners,   Lebanon's Foreign Minister said on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Israelâs battle against the militant group that controls Gaza a âtrue war.â
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Israel prosecutors indicted three  Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas on Monday on a raft of charges  including helping carry out the deadly operation to snatch two  soldiers that sparked a war with the Jewish state.
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Israeli forces concluded a four-day operation in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, capturing a senior Hamas commander who Israeli military officials said was the leader of a cell that was preparing a suicide bombing in Israel during the religious holiday.
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The United Nations has started work   on trying to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers   kidnapped by Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah in July, a   senior U.N. official said on Sunday.
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Israel pounded southern Lebanon with airstrikes and artillery and sent ground troops over the border for the first time in six years Wednesday after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in an explosion of violence between the neighboring countries.
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Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah   committed war crimes in its conflict with Israel by targeting   civilians with rockets packed with metal ball bearings, rights   group Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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Both Israel and Hizbollah broke international humanitarian law by failing to protect civilians during the month-long Lebanon war, four U.N. human rights envoys said in a report on Tuesday.
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The Israeli government said Saturday it is asking friendly Muslim countries to contribute troops to the U.N. force that is to help police the cease-fire in southern Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah.
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MARJAYOUN, Lebanon  - Israel ousted Hizbollah   guerillas from a stronghold just inside Lebanon on Saturday   after several days of fierce fighting, the army said, as it   bombarded targets across the south of the country.
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A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.
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Israel's army released a video Monday purporting to show the interrogation of a Hezbollah fighter acknowledging his part in the raid on an Israeli army patrol July 12 &#151; the spark that ignited the current conflict in Lebanon.
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Israel is reportedly using an old law on "absentee landowners" to seize land in east Jerusalem.
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The United States blamed Syria and Iran on Wednesday for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah militants and the ensuing violence. The White House called for the immediate and unconditional release of the two soldiers.
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Israeli officials Wednesday said that a "sign of life" had been received from Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped in a cross-border raid by Palestinian militants.
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Israeli state prosecutors on Monday   indicted three captured Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas on   criminal charges including murder and membership in a terrorist   organization, Justice Ministry officials said.