European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition pages in the world israeli airstrikes kill 5 As Gaza fighting escalates Hussein Maluvac a lebanese Soldier Points his m16 through a window during a clash with fighters from the Fatah islam militant group at the palestinian refugee Camp in Tripoli on gun Battles raging on in Lebanon refugee Camps by Bassem Mroue the associated press Lebanon Leba Nese troops pounded a Palestin Ian refugee Camp with artillery and tank fire for a second Day raising huge palls of smoke As they battled a militant group suspected of ties to Al Aida in Lebanon worst eruption of violence since the end of the 197590 civil nearly 50 combatants were killed in the first Day of fighting on sunday at the Nahr Elba red where the Fatah islam Mili Tant group was holed but the number of civilian casualties from two Days of bombard ment of the crowded Camp on the outskirts of the Northern port City of Tripoli was not Palestin Ian officials in the Camp reported nine killed the figures could not be confirmed because emergency workers or Security officials have not been Able to get columns of Black smoke engulfed the skies Over Nahr Al bared As fires raged for and heavy gunfire and explosions rang out constantly throughout monday shells could defends Lebanon Security operations Washington the state department on monday defended the actions of the lebanese Security declaring they Are working in a legitimate manner against provocations by violent extremists operating out of a palestinian refugee this is a group that has been involved in violence to achieve whatever their stated objective May spokesman Sean Mccormack at the White Deputy press Secretary Tony Fratto expressed concern about the violence and civilian we believe the parties should take a step Back from he from the associated press be seen thudding into buildings in the Seaside fighting paused briefly in the afternoon to allow the evacuation of 18 wounded Accord ing to Saleh an official with the palestinian red cres cent the fierce fight ing quickly ambulances raced through the streets of nearby where Many shops were closed and Many Leb anese living near the Camp stayed there Are Many were under there is a shortage of Medicine and there Are children under the Sana Abu a told Al Nazeera television by cell phone from in Side the the Battle was an unprecedented showdown Between the Leba Nese army and militant groups that have Arisen in Lebanon palestinian refugee which Are Home to tens of thousands of people living amid poverty and crime and which lebanese troops Are not allowed to the troops were fighting a group called Fatah whose Leader has said he is inspired by Al Aida Leader Osama bin Laden and was training militants to carry out attacks in other coun the groups Leader is linked to the former head of Al Aida in Iraq and is believed to have sent fighters to join Iraq save 10 off with promo code bz2du by Sarah Al deed the associated press Gaza Gaza strip Israel pounded the Gaza strip with airstrikes on killing five militants and hitting suspected weapon storage Sites in its Campaign against palestinian rocket and israeli officials indicated that Hamas political Lead ers might be their next at a rocket fired from Gaza hit a car in the nearby israeli town of Derot killed a woman and wounded two other medical officials the woman was the first israeli killed in a rocket attack since no the car was set on fire by the deaths in rocket attacks often trigger a harsh israeli the Salvo came during a meet ing in Derot Between israeli for eign minister Tripi Livni and Javier the european Union foreign policy they were not fearing for their Hamas leaders turned off their cell stayed out of official vehicles and reduced their move ments As militant groups declared a state of the precautions followed an israeli airstrike late sunday on the Home of Hamas lawmaker Khalil Ahaya that killed eight Israel denied who was not Home at the was the tar but israels leaders said they would employ More drastic Mea sures to Stop the daily salvos of rocket fire from Gaza at on an israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car carrying four islamic jihad killing All of a spokesman for the group said they were targeted just after firing rockets into Isra the military confirmed the at islamic which has car ried out hundreds of rocket at tacks and suicide bombings in re cent threatened earths Haking other airstrikes monday killed a Hamas militant and hit suspected weapon storage the army More than 40 Palestin ians have been killed in israeli strikes since a decision last week to Start hitting Back for the rocket Voda fone unveils phones for developing nations group the worlds largest Mobile phone monday unveiled two  handsets to target emerging such As India and building on its recent billion acquisition of India fourth arg est operator Hutchison Essar the great Britai based 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monitoring Mission that remains in place have said they believe both sides routinely inflate the number of from wire reports proudly serving the military for Over 10 years