Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 5/11/1998
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of May 11, 1998
- Annan and Netanyahu discuss Lebanon withdrawal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated Israel's readiness to withdraw from southern Lebanon during a meeting on Friday in New York with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Lebanon-Israel-UN, Politics, 5/16/1998 - Israel continues aggressions, expels three Lebanese
The Israeli occupation forces expelled Lebanese citizen Muhammad Mousa al-Daher, his daughter Muna and her five-month old daughter from Shabaa Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/15/1998 - Lebanese Foreign Ministry secretary-general calls for unconditional implementation of 425
Zafer El-Hassan, the secretary-general of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, called on Thursday after receiving Arab League Secretary-General Esmat Abdul Meguid on Israel to implement Security Council's resolution 425 and withdraw its troops from an occupides south Lebanon strip without any conditions. Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 5/15/1998 - Israeli warplanes kill 10 people, a signal to Syria?
"The bombardment is a gross violation of Lebanon's territorial integrity and France condemns this bloody military action" Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/14/1998 - World Bank chief visits Syria, Lebanon
Syrian President Hafez al-Assad on Wednesday received the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn. Talks dealt with financial and economic conditions in the region and the activities carried out by the W.B. Syria-Lebanon-World Bank, Economics, 5/14/1998 - Israeli raids kill 10 Palestinians in Bekaa
Sources in a Lebanese hospital said today that ten Palestinian fighters were killed and another 22 injured, five seriously, in three Israeli raids on the Lebanese Bekaa. Lebanon-Regional, Military, 5/13/1998 - Syria's Khaddam meets Lebanon's Hariri
A meeting was held in Damascus on Tuesday in the office of Syrian Vice-President Abdul Halim Khaddam, attended by Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, "in the context of contacts, consultations and coordination between the two countries." Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 5/13/1998 - Fatah movement eulogizes four martyrs Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/13/1998
- O.I.C. supports Lebanon Regional-Lebanon-UN, Politics, 5/13/1998
- Israeli shelling damages school, homes in Kafer Tabnet
Israeli forces on Monday shelled an elementary school in Kafer Tabnet town in south Lebanon wounding a girl student. The Israeli attack also resulted in damage to a Lebanese citizen's house and the electrical grid in the town. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/12/1998 - Syria, Lebanon sign cooperation program
The executive program of the Syrian-Lebanese cooperation agreement in the field of technical, vocational and technological education for the years 1998 through 2000 was signed in Damascus on Sunday. Syria-Lebanon, Education, 5/12/1998 - Qatar studies providing Lebanon with natural gas through French company Lebanon-Qatar-France, Business, 5/12/1998
- Lebanese resistance targets Sujud, Kassaret al-Aroush
Israeli occupation forces on Sunday bombarded western sector areas, Abu Rashid heights and Berkat al-Jabbour in the occupied part of south Lebanon, as the Lebanese national resistance forces attacked two Israeli positions in Sujud and Kassaret al-Aroush. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/11/1998