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June 18, 2007

Three Lebanese Soldiers Killed in Refugee Camp Battle
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=17DC605:A6F02AD83191E1600B0476BC493E1F139574F7DCC14957C0 Fighting between
government forces and militants at a Palestinian camp near Tripoli
enters its fifth week





A flash is seen as a Lebanese Army tank fires at a building during
fighting in the Palestinian Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli
(18 Jun 07)Three more Lebanese soldiers have been killed as fighting
between government forces and militants at a Palestinian refugee camp
entered its fifth week.

The deaths Monday occurred as government forces continued shelling
Fatah al-Islam militant positions at the Narh al-Bared refugee camp in
northern Lebanon, near Tripoli.

The month of fighting at the camp has left more than 130 people dead,
including 71 Lebanese soldiers.

Meanwhile, in southern Lebanon, soldiers and United Nations
peacekeepers patrolled near the Israeli border after rockets fired
from Lebanon hit Israel Sunday.

At least two rockets landed in Kiryat Shmona in the first cross-border
rocket attack since last year's war between Israel and Hezbollah
militants in Lebanon.

Hezbollah denied responsibility for Sunday's attack, which caused no
injuries.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the rocket attack "very
disturbing."

The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon says the rocket attack is "a
serious breach" of the ceasefire that ended Israel's 34-day war
against Hezbollah last August.

Hezbollah guerrillas fired thousands of rockets into Israel during the
war.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.




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