Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 4/5/1999
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of April 5, 1999
- Israel reduces forces in south Lebanon Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/10/1999
- Lebanese-Palestinian follow-up committee to solve refugee problem
Palestinian-Lebanese talks concerning problems facing the Palestinian refugees in the Lebanese camps and means of eliminating these problems were resumed. Lebanon-Palestine, Politics, 4/9/1999 - Meeting with Moratinos, Lahoud stresses cohesion between Syrian, Lebanese tracks
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud has asserted Lebanon's commitment to the principles on the grounds of which the Middle East peace process was built in implementing international legitimacy resolutions and the land-for-peace formula. Lebanon-European Union, Politics, 4/9/1999 - Israel held responsible over violating April Understanding
The April Understanding Monitoring Committee has condemned Israel over its violation of the April Understanding's provisions, which ban bombarding civilians or targeting residential areas in military operations. Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 4/9/1999 - Lebanon approves budget Lebanon, Economics, 4/9/1999
- Lebanese resistance scores direct hits on Israeli positions
The Lebanese resistance has carried out a series of successful operations against the Israeli occupation forces during which direct hits were scored on the occupation positions. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/9/1999 - Lebanon appeals the UN for return of Lebanese deportees
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri asked UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in a cable he sent on Wednesday to make an immediate move to return the Lebanese deportees from the occupied town of Shabaa to their homes. Lebanon, Politics, 4/8/1999 - Moroccan lawmaker meets Lebanese peers after solidarity visit to Iraq
Moroccan MP Brahim Rachidi, sixth vice-speaker of the house of representatives, held on Wednesday a meeting with his Lebanese peers. Morocco-Lebanon, Politics, 4/8/1999 - Further Israeli attacks against south Lebanon
Lebanese security sources said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation artillery bombarded the western area in the town of Majdal Zoun and the outskirts of al-Mansouri town and Jib Sweid in the western strip of south Lebanon, using heavy shelling. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/8/1999 - Hariri to visit Damascus Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 4/8/1999
- Israel expels 25 citizens from south Lebanon
Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday, together with the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army militia expelled more than 25 Lebanese civilians from the occupied Lebanese town of Shabaa in south Lebanon, including women, children and elderly, via Zamraya gate on the Hasbaya front. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/7/1999 - Berri arrives from Damascus with plan for easing conditions in Lebanon
High-ranking parliamentary sources in Lebanon said on Tuesday that the talks Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri held in Damascus with Maj. Gen. Bashar al-Assad, son of the Syrian president, and Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam in the presence of the chairman of the Lebanese Socialist Progressive Party, Walid Jumblatt, who is also a member of the Lebanese Parliament were held in "a convenient atmosphere that falls in the course of mobilizing Lebanese-Syrian efforts to calm down the situation in Lebanon Lebanon, Politics, 4/7/1999 - Israel continues attacks against south Lebanon
Israeli artillery on Monday continued to attack the areas adjacent to the occupied strip of south Lebanon, shelling villages and towns in the western sector and al-Tuffah mountainous areas, according to Lebanese security sources. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/6/1999 - Lebanese president condemns Israeli aggressions against the Lebanese people
A child, Ali Hassan Khalil, 8 years, was wounded in the Israeli shelling of Arab Salim town. Two houses were considerably damaged while electricity poles and high-tension lines which feed the region with electricity were hit. Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 4/5/1999 - Israel continues aggression against south Lebanon
In retaliation to the Israeli acts of aggression against south Lebanon and the western Bekaa, the Lebanese resistance carried out on Sunday a series of operations against Israel and Israeli-allied militia positions in the occupied border strip. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/5/1999 - Moratinos in Lebanon today
The European Union's Middle East peace process envoy, Miguel Moratinos, arrived today in Beirut at the beginning of his new tour of the region, in order to enhance the stalemated peace process. Lebanon-European Union, Politics, 4/5/1999