Les affrontements avaient commencé le 20 mai suite à l'attaque du Fatah al-Islam sur les positions de l'armée libanaise près du camp ainsi qu'à Tripoli. La plupart des 30 000 habitants de Nahr al-Bared ont trouvé refuge dans le camp voisin de Badaoui dès les premiers jours de combat. Au matin du 25 mai, 2 700 familles y avaient trouvé refuge.

UNRWA's Commissioner-General warmly welcomed the US$ 1.277 million donation from Dubai Cares, "an organization which has risen from the society of Dubai, whose leader has inspired his

Accordingly, army officers who ordered the use of the cluster bombs will not face disciplinary or legal action, local Ha'aretz reported on its website.

Israeli artillery corps reportedly fired some 2,400 cluster bombs at Lebanon during the fighting with Hezbollah gunmen.

Several months after the war, Israeli

Security Council
5815th Meeting (AM)

Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Highlights Results of Paris Donors Conference, Says Next Few Months Critical for Renewed Peace Process

Since the Annapolis conference in November, bilateral negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had commenced, but at the same time, new settlement activity and ongoing violence had been a cause of concern, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs told the Security Council this morning.

During his monthly briefing on the situation

Conseil de sécurité
Soixante-deuxième session

I. Introduction

1. Le présent rapport est soumis en application de la déclaration du Président du Conseil de sécurité (S/PRST/2006/48) dans laquelle le Conseil m'a invité à lui présenter un rapport sur l'application de ses résolutions 1612 (2005), 1379 (2001), 1460 (2003) et 1539 (2004). Ainsi que le Conseil me l'a demandé, le présent rapport comprend des informations

Mohamed Hamzi, 33, was killed in the village of Zebqine near the southern port city of Tyre when a cluster bomb exploded as he was gathering wood to heat his home, police said.

The munitions dropped by Israel during its devastating air war against Lebanon last year included at least a million cluster bomblets, according to the United Nations.

"No-one can negotiate on our right to return to Palestine. There is only one country called Palestine and

NAHR EL BARED, Lebanon, 17 December 2007 - Since May, when conflicts between the Lebanese military and Fateh el Islam militants began, life for children in the Palestinian refugee camp here has been a mixture of fear and disillusionment.

Of the more than 6,500 families who fled the camp, over 1,000 have now returned, bringing with them 650 children aged 12 and under.

Although local and international relief agencies have been providing essential services in the camp, what children seem to miss most is the small sense of security that they once felt in