JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 -- Israel's "frequent failure" to distinguish between military and civilian targets during the war in Lebanon last summer was the primary reason so many Lebanese civilians were killed in the bombing campaign, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Thursday.
The group contends that military bombardment during last year's war with Hezbollah was 'indiscriminate.' A government spokesman calls the report inaccurate. A U.S. human-rights group today charged that most of the civilian deaths in Lebanon during last year's war resulted from "indiscriminate" bombardment by Israel rather than from Hezbollah's battlefield tactics.
An official vote to determine the next president of Lebanon will take place later this month, thanks to a motion from the nation's parliament speaker.
The mayor of Lebanon said Thursday he plans to leave office. Mayor Don Fox said he will serve out his term in office and leave when a new mayor is elected next year.
Human rights campaigners accuse Israel of carrying out indiscriminate air strikes in the 2006 war in Lebanon.
The National Guard Armory in Lebanon, 113 E. Taylor Street, will be hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Passengers using the airport in Lebanon now have larger planes to fly to and from New York.
CAIRO, EGYPT (AP)--Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora urged Syria on Thursday to step up its efforts to prevent arms smuggling into Lebanon, echoing a request made by the U.N. in June after it investigated security along the two countries' shared border.
SELAA, Lebanon—Ahmed Ayoub still shakes with anger when he recounts the night Israeli warplanes struck his neighborhood more than a year ago, killing eight of his relatives and neighbors as they slept.
Source: Human Rights Watch (Jerusalem, September 6, 2007) – Israel's indiscriminate airstrikes, not Hezbollah's shielding as claimed by Israeli officials, caused most of the approximately 900 civilian deaths in Lebanon during ...