1. In a large fenced-off security zone, drums pile up to the level of a two storey house. 2. Meanwhile, Sharpness Docks themselves became an annual security zone after the dockside cranes had been occupied by opponents of the dumping. 3. Israel responded to the fighting by moving troops into its self-declared security zone in southern Lebanon and launching artillery attacks on the Shia battle-grounds. 4. Evidence emerged in January that Israel was planning to extend its self-declared security zone further north into Lebanon. 5. The same day, one Israeli and three Islamic Resistance guerrillas were killed in clashes inside the security zone, in a gun battle near the village of Sribbine. 6. In retaliation, Israel directed heavy artillery bombardments at villages north of the security zone, including areas from which Israeli tanks and troops had just withdrawn. 7. The Chief of Staff of the Turkish armed forces Gen. Dogan Gures did not rule out the establishment of a Turkish security zone in the Iraqi mountains. 8. Some reports claimed that regular Lebanese forces had fired on Israeli troops positioned within the security zone. 9. Israeli troops have withdrawn into their self-declared security zone in Southern Lebanon. 10. Also, there are more Israeli soldiers patrolling the security zone now, making more of them front-line targets. |