Evidence shows Israel targeted ordinary citizens during the Gaza offensive, writes Clancy Chassay and Julian Borger.
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/ 5 November 2007
In the long shadows of early dusk, a large black Mercedes with blacked-out windows picked me up from my hotel and whisked me through Gaza City’s dusty, sullied streets. The roads, strewn with rubbish, were largely empty: Gaza was preparing for an Israeli incursion and the routine was familiar.
In the middle of the road into the Naher al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon a woman lay shot, her body convulsing, unreachable by the army and Red Cross as snipers continued to fire over her. Inside the devastated camp, residents waited without water or electricity for a ceasefire to come into effect.
Washington is waging a covert war against Hizbullah, according to the militant group, which accuses the United States of arming anti-Hizbullah militias and seeking to undermine the Lebanese army in moves that could plunge the country into civil war. The accusation follows reports in the US and British media that the CIA has been authorised to take covert action against the militant Shia group.
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/ 18 December 2006
The leader of the biggest Christian faction in Lebanon, General Michel Aoun, who has formed an alliance with the militant Shia group, Hizbullah, said their opposition movement was prepared to set up their own national unity administration if the Western-backed government of Fouad Siniora did not bow to their demands.
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/ 16 September 2006
In the dusty, broken village of Aita al-Shaab, where almost every house bears the scars of the battle between Israel and Hezbollah, the war still lingers a month after it officially ended. Israeli tanks and bulldozers roam back and forth across the border at night, locals say, while Hezbollah fighters patrol the thick green hills above the village.
Cowering from the bombs in the Tyre Rest House Resort, the coastal city’s smartest hotel, along with 450 others, the Ahmad family had long since run out of food. Even if they made it to Beirut, the family of nine had no idea how they would pay for their flights to Denmark, where they have family and citizenship.