10 juin 2007

     Samedi, de violents combats, souvent rapprochés et accompagnés d'un pilonnage intensif à l'artillerie, avaient opposé les soldats libanais aux islamistes du Fatah al-Islam retranchés depuis trois semaines dans le camp de réfugiés, selon media. Samedi, les soldats libanais stationnés en périphérie du camp ont tenté d'avancer vers l'intérieur, vers les positions des islamistes. Une quarantaine de soldats ont été blessés dans ces combats, dont quatre sont dans un état critique, a déclaré dimanche un commandant de... [Lire la suite]

     Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied on Sunday a weekend report that he had asked US President George W. Bush to allow Israel to begin talks with Syria. Sources close to NU-NRP MK Effi Eitam said that the prime minister had spoken with Eitam and assured him that Israel had no contact with Syria, JPost reported. Eitam was vocal in his criticism of Olmert following a report Friday in Yediot Aharonot that Israel had been sending secret messages to Syria.Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Saturday that... [Lire la suite]

      Hizbullah has built a network of underground military bunkers under the noses of United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon close to the Israel-Lebanon border that can withstand air strikes, according to a report in Britain's Sunday Times. The Times said that the guerilla group had replenished its weaponry and cited IDF intelligence estimates that it had stockpiled 20,000 rockets. "Since the Israeli forces left, Hizbullah has been building formidable military underground posts under the noses... [Lire la suite]

     Rival Palestinian factions battled in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, raising the weekend death toll to at least three and 39 injured in the fiercest internal fighting since a ceasefire was declared nearly a month ago. The heaviest fighting between Hamas and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah took place in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, where hundreds of rival gunmen took up positions on street corners and rooftops, media reported. Hamas and Fatah pounded each other's positions with rocket-propelled... [Lire la suite]