ISRAEL: Lebanon renews demand for compensation from Israel for damage inflicted during 2006 war

By the Daily Star

BEIRUT: Lebanon on Tuesday renewed its demand that Israel pay compensation for damage inflicted during the summer 2006 war. Lebanon’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Nawwaf Salam, passed on an official letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outlining repeated Israeli violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora demanded in the letter that Israel compensate Lebanon for inflicting “unimaginable losses” on the country’s infrastructure, which has not yet fully recovered.

LEBANON: Lebanon denounces Israel’s cluster bombs

by Press TV

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri urges the world community to condemn Israel’s use of cluster bombs against Lebanon in 2006.

“Even after the UN Security Council approved Resolution 1701 Israel continued its assault and dropped more than 1 million cluster bombs in the last three days of the war,” Berri said.

The speaker further called on the Lebanese government to shoulder responsibility for the issue and compensate bereaved families of the victims.

LEBANON: 2 men die of their wounds in Lebanon explosion

By BASSEM MROUE
The Associated Press

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Lebanese civilian and a soldier died Tuesday of wounds inflicted by this week’s bombing in the northern city of Tripoli, raising the total death toll to seven, security officials said.

LEBANON: Car bomb targets military bus in Lebanon, killing 5

By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times

BEIRUT – A car-bomb explosion struck a bus filled with Lebanese soldiers in the northern seaside city of Tripoli today, killing at least four people and wounding 30, including civilians, a Lebanese security official said. The bombing was the latest in a series of recent attacks in Lebanon and Syria that have unsettled the region, with Syrian officials today suggested evidence pointed to Islamic groups in Lebanon for a deadly weekend car bomb explosion in Damascus.

LEBANON: Six killed in Lebanon army bus blast

by AFP

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AFP) — At least six people were killed on Monday in a blast targeting a military bus on the outskirts of the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a security official told AFP.

“We have at least six people killed, three of them soldiers,” the official said. “We have about 30 other people injured.”