Israel blockade against Lebanon tightens
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One hospital in the heart of Beirut will stop taking new patients while another in the south &#151; full of war wounded &#151; expects to close soon.
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The UN expresses concern over rising tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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Why the stalemate in Lebanon has made Israelis more determined to strike harder next time
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Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even U.N. humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.
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JERUSALEM   Israel came under new pressure Friday to move its West Bank barrier closer to the 1967 barrier after the attorney general warned of international isolation and the Supreme Court ordered the government to explain its position in light of ...
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Israel struck Beirut airport and   blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, intensifying reprisals   that have killed 47 civilians since Lebanese Hizbollah fighters   seized two Israeli soldiers and killed eight a day earlier.
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With a low-flying passenger jet circling the capital, Lebanon put on a boisterous show Thursday to celebrate the end of Israel's air blockade. But Israel said its closure of Lebanon's ports will remain in force until international forces arrive to watch the seas.
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Israel began easing a tight closure that aid officials had warned could lead to a health and food crisis.
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Lebanon emerges on Thursday from an   8-week-old Israeli blockade of its airport and territorial   waters, which German advisers and U.N. forces will now help the   Lebanese authorities to monitor.
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Developments Monday in Israel's offensive against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon:
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Lebanese troops moved on Tuesday into a   town wrecked by Israel's war with Hizbollah, as U.N.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he hoped for word on the   lifting of an Israeli blockade on Lebanon within two days.
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Israel will lift its naval blockade of Lebanon within 48 hours, having received assurances international forces will have arrived by then to monitor the seas, government spokesman Asaf Shariv said Friday.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi   Annan on Thursday renewed his calls for Israel to lift its   blockade of Lebanon swiftly and to withdraw fully from the   country as soon as 5,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in the south.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel's government said yesterday that it would end its air and maritime blockade of Lebanon today to make way for an international force that is to deploy as part of a cease-fire that ended the 34-day conflict.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel lifted its air blockade of Lebanon yesterday after eight weeks, but maintained its sea cordon after determining that not enough international forces had taken up position along the coast to enforce an arms embargo against the Shi'ite militia Hezbollah.
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Israel said on Wednesday it could   gradually dismantle its blockade of Lebanon as Lebanese and   U.N. forces control entry points to stop Hizbollah rearming,   and the U.N. commander in the south said a breakthrough could   be close.
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Israel steps up security on the Lebanese border and in embassies after the killing of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh.