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Israel responds to fire from Gaza with airstrikes Amnesty:

By FARES AKRAM police said they suspected a military post near where mained mostly quiet since Syrian govt. used
Associated Press was a “terror attack.” a construction crew was a 2014 Israel-Hamas war. cluster bombs
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) In an unrelated incident working on “important se- The military said the mor-
— Israeli aircraft and tanks earlier, a Jewish West Bank curity infrastructure” along tar fire appeared to have in besieged area
struck a number of militant settler fatally shot a 47-year- the border. come as retaliation for the
targets in the Gaza Strip on old Palestinian villager in a No one was injured on the tunnel incident. PHILIP ISSA
Thursday in response to a clash that occurred under Israeli side. “The (Israeli military) sees SARAH EL DEEB
volley of mortar fire ema- disputed circumstances. The border violence comes this as a severe event and Associated Press
nating from the Palestinian The Health Ministry in Gaza a month after Israel deto- we know exactly who con- BEIRUT (AP) — Amnesty In-
territory, in a spike of vio- said three civilians were nated a tunnel leading from ducted this attack,” said ternational said Thursday
lence a month after Israel lightly wounded in one of Gaza into its territory, killing Israeli military spokesman the Syrian government
demolished a militant tun- the Israeli strikes. 12 people, among them Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus. has used internationally
nel dug from Gaza. There was no immedi- militants from the Iranian- He said Islamic Jihad was banned cluster munitions
Later Thursday, in a sepa- ate claim of responsibil- backed Palestinian Islamic behind the mortars but that in attacks on a besieged
rate bout of violence, a ity for the 12 mortar shells Jihad group and Hamas, Israel held Hamas respon- rebel-held suburb of Da-
20-year-old Israeli was launched, which the Is- which rules the Gaza Strip. sible for any attacks ema- mascus, accusing it of
stabbed to death in what raeli military said targeted The tense border has re- nating from Gaza. q committing war crimes on
“an epic scale.”
Lebanese PM decries Hezbollah’s role in region’s wars The report came on the

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese second day of U.N.-spon-
sored talks in Geneva in
Prime Minister Saad Hariri the latest push to find a
said in remarks published political settlement to the
Thursday that he fears He- nearly seven-year civil war
zbollah’s military role in re- in Syria.
gional conflicts will end up The Amnesty International
costing his country dearly. report called attention to
But Hariri also stressed he the calamitous humanitar-
was optimistic that a way ian situation at the doors of
to end the political paraly- the Syrian capital, where
sis gripping Lebanon fol- the government and its
lowing his Nov. 4 resigna- backers have kept a sub-
tion is being worked out. urban enclave of 400,000
It is unclear what, if any, people under siege since
concessions Hezbollah 2013.The Eastern Ghouta
would offer to ensure that region, one of hubs of the
Hariri remain in office, uprising against President
though Hezbollah officials Bashar Assad in 2011, is
have said they are keen now facing the highest re-
on finding a political solu- corded malnutrition rate in
tion to the crisis. the country since the out-
Hariri said his resignation break of war, the U.N. re-
was meant to let the world In this photo released by the Lebanese Government, Lebanese President Michel Aoun, center, ported Wednesday.Based
know that Lebanon cannot meets with Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, left, at the Presi- on interviews with activ-
tolerate the militant Hez- dential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. ists in eastern Ghouta and
bollah group’s meddling in (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Government via AP) verification of open source
the affairs of Gulf countries no plans to discuss the dis- Days before Hariri’s return zbollah’s fighters would re- videos and photographs,
— a reference to Yemen, arming of Hezbollah, say- to Beirut, Hezbollah’s lead- turn to Lebanon once the Amnesty said at least 10
where the kingdom is fight- ing the militant group has er Hassan Nasrallah said his fight against IS is over. civilians were killed in No-
ing Shiite rebels. Hezbollah, not used its weapons on fighters are returning from In Syria, Hariri said the vic- vember because of the
an Iran ally, denies having Lebanese soil. Iraq now that the Islamic tory went to Russia and government’s use of the
a military role in warn-torn Hariri’s resignation, an- State group has been de- Iran, who had backed banned Soviet-made clus-
Yemen though it openly nounced while he was in feated there. On a visit to Assad. But to truly end the ter munitions.
fights on the side of Syrian Riyadh, stunned the Leba- Italy, Lebanese President conflict in Syria, Assad “has The indiscriminate weap-
President Bashar Assad in nese and raised suspicions Michel Aoun, a Hezbollah to leave,” Hariri said. “The ons, banned in over 100
Syria’s civil war. Saudi Ara- that it was orchestrated ally, told the Italian news- problem in Syria is Bashar countries, gravely endan-
bia backs the opposition by Saudi Arabia, his main paper La Stampa that He- Assad.” q ger civilians because of
trying to unseat Assad. backer. their indiscriminate nature,
Hariri spoke to the French He later returned to Leba- Amnesty said.“The Syrian
magazine Paris Mach. He non on Nov. 21 and put government has shown
is currently on a private the resignation on hold to callous disregard to the
visit to Paris and expected allow for consultations. lives of the hundreds of
back in Beirut next week, In a tweet late Wednes- thousands of people living
according to his office. day, Hariri said matters are in Eastern Ghouta,” said
“I wanted the world to un- moving “positively” and Philip Luther, Amnesty In-
derstand that Lebanon predicted that he may for- ternational’s Research and
can no longer tolerate the mally rescind his resigna- Advocacy Director for the
interferences of a party like tion next week. Middle East and North Afri-
Hezbollah in the affairs of Saudi Arabia and Iran are ca. “But this recent escala-
the Gulf countries, where fighting proxy wars in the tion in attacks - clearly tar-
300,000 Lebanese live,” Mideast. Hariri has de- geting civilians and civilian
Hariri said. “We must not manded that Hezbollah infrastructure using interna-
pay for the actions of He- remove itself from the con- tionally banned cluster mu-
zbollah.” flicts in Syria, Iraq and Ye- nitions - is horrific.”q
He hinted that there were men.