Italian U.N peacekeeping soldiers, patrol the area following an explosion in Tayr Filsay, Lebanon, near the port city of Tyre, about six miles (10 kilometers) from the border with Israel, late Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. An explosion ripped through the garage of a Hezbollah member's home in southern Lebanon on Monday, and security officials said the building might have been used to store weapons. One senior security official said the blast killed one person, but the other officials could not confirm that. The Hezbollah militant group that holds sway in the south said no one was killed but one person was wounded. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago

Italian U.N peacekeeping soldiers, patrol the area following an explosion in Tayr Filsay, Lebanon, near the port city of Tyre, about six miles (10 kilometers) from the border with Israel, late Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. An explosion ripped through the garage of a Hezbollah member's home in southern Lebanon on Monday, and security officials said the building might have been used to store weapons. One senior security official said the blast killed one person, but the other officials could not confirm that. The Hezbollah militant group that holds sway in the south said no one was killed but one person was wounded.

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  1. New York Knicks' Wilson Chandler (21) shoots over Sacramento Kings' Omri Casspi, (18), of Israel, during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010 in New York.
  2. Alize Cornet of France returns a backhand to Israel's Shahar Peer during their Paris Open tennis tournament match at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, February 9, 2010.
  3. Alize Cornet of France reacts during her Paris Open tennis tournament match against Israel's Shahar Peer at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, February 9, 2010.
  4. Alize Cornet of France serves to Israel's Shahar Peer during their Paris Open tennis match at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, February 9, 2010.
  5. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem in this February 7, 2010 file picture. Netanyahu called for immediate and "crippling" sanctions against Iran on February 9, 2010, as it began making higher-grade nuclear fuel in defiance of international censure.
  6. Spaniard Ariadna Jove Marti (2nd L) and Australian Bridgette Chappell, both activists belonging to the International Solidarity Movement, appear in Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem February 8, 2010. Israel's Supreme Court ordered the two pro-Palestinian foreign activists released on bail on Monday, saying Israeli immigration officers overstepped their bounds by detaining them in the West Bank.
  7. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attends an Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 8, 2010.
  8. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front) attends a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 8, 2010.
  9. An Israeli security guard stands next to a truck with gas at the gas depot in the southern city of Ashkelon, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Police say an explosive device strapped to a gasoline truck was discovered and defused at the entrance to a major gas depot in southern Israel.
  10. Children attend a class after two non-government organizations from Israel set up a classroom at a camp for earthquake survivors in the Golf Club of Petionville in Port-a-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced after Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake.
  11. Children watch at a makeshift classroom, set up by two non-government organizations from Israel, at a camp for earthquake survivors in the Golf Club of the Petionville suburb in Port-a-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced after Haiti's Jan. 12 powerful earthquake.
  12. FILE - In this file photo taken on Sept. 23, 2005, a foreign activist is detained by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration at the construction site of Israel's separation barrier in the Palestinian village of Bilin near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Israeli army says its forces entered the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, and arrested two pro-Palestinian activists from Australia and Spain.
  13. BEIT HORON, WEST BANK - FEBRUARY 7: An Israeli army outpost stands over route 443, a main road on which Palestinian traffic is forbidden, linking central Israel with Jerusalem on February 7, 2010 near the Israeli settlement of Beit Horon in the West Bank. Israeli ministers have proposed a law annexing the road to dodge a recent Supreme Court decision that allows Palestinians to use the West Bank highway. A local road for Palestinian use only is seen on the right.
  14. BEIT HORON, WEST BANK - FEBRUARY 7: Vehicles drive on route 443, a main road on which Palestinian traffic is forbidden, linking central Israel with Jerusalem as Israel's separation barrier surounds it on February 7, 2010 near the Israeli settlement of Beit Horon in the West Bank. Israeli ministers have proposed a law annexing the road to dodge a recent Supreme Court decision that allows Palestinians to use the West Bank highway.
  15. BEIT HORON, WEST BANK - FEBRUARY 7: An Israeli woman walks to a bus station on route 443, a main road on which Palestinian traffic is forbidden, linking central Israel with Jerusalem as Israel's separation barrier surounds it on February 7, 2010 near the Israeli settlement of Beit Horon in the West Bank. Israeli ministers have proposed a law annexing the road to dodge a recent Supreme Court decision that allows Palestinians to use the West Bank highway.
  16. A man stands on a snowy Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights near the Israel-Syria border February 7, 2010. The Golan Heights form a strategic plateau between Israel and Syria of about 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles). Israel captured it in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981 in a move not recognized internationally.

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  1. Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters gesture as they listen to their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah through a giant screen during a ritual mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, who died in a seventh century battle, to mark Arbain in Beirut's suburbs, February 4, 2010.
  2. Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters listen to their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah through a giant screen during a ritual mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, who died in a seventh century battle, to mark Arbain in Beirut's suburbs, February 4, 2010.
  3. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters through a giant screen during a ritual mourning for Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, who died in a seventh century battle, to mark Arbain in Beirut's suburbs, February 4, 2010.
  4. A member of Hezbollah's youth movement, the Mahdi Scouts, throws flowers into the sea in memory of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010. A Lebanese forensics team has returned from Ethiopia with DNA samples from relatives to help identify victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash last week. Search operations continued Tuesday for the plane and the black box. Last week, a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Ramage, detected signals from the black box flight recorders at a depth of 4,265 feet (1,300 meters).
  5. A member of Hezbollah's youth movement, the Mahdi Scouts, throws flowers tributes into the sea on Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010, in memory of the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on January 25, south of Beirut, Lebanon. A Lebanese forensics team has returned from Ethiopia with DNA samples from relatives to help identify victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash last week. Search operations continued Tuesday for the plane and the black box. Last week, a U.S. Navy ship, the USS Ramage, detected signals from the black box flight recorders at a depth of 4,265 feet (1,300 meters).
  6. Sheik Nabil Kaouk, right, Hezbollah's commander in south Lebanon, and Hezbollah legislator Hassan Fadlallah, left, attend the funeral of prominent businessman Hassan Tajeddine _ a very rich and influential Shiite family in southern Lebanon and a strong Hezbollah supporter _ who was one of few people so far identified from Monday's Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 crash in the southern village of Hanaway near the port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. The pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea flew in the opposite direction from the path recommended by the control tower after taking off from Beirut in thunderstorms, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday.
  7. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks on a giant screen at the opening of the "Arab International Forum to Support the Resistance," in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. The leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal, who attended the forum, called on the Egyptian leader to stop its construction of an underground steel wall along its border with Gaza.
  8. Head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc Mohamed Raad (R), Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (2nd R), Lebanon's Minister of Education Hassan Mneimneh (2nd L) and Hezbollah senior offical Hassan Ezzedine listen to Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speak via a video display during the Arab and International Forum to support the Resistance, in Beirut January 15, 2010.
  9. Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (C), Head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc Mohamed Raad (R) and Lebanon's Minister of Education Hassan Mneimneh (L) listen to Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speak via a video display during the Arab and International Forum to support the Resistance, in Beirut January 15, 2010.
  10. Lebanon's Hezbollah members close the entrance to an underground parking site in Beirut December 27, 2009. A bomb which exploded in Beirut on Saturday killed two Hamas members, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamist group in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday.
  11. A Lebanese military policeman walks past Hezbollah members at the closed entrance of an underground parking site in Beirut December 27, 2009. A bomb which exploded in Beirut on Saturday killed two Hamas members, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamist group in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday.
  12. A Lebanese military policeman (R) looks at Hezbollah members at a closed entrance to an underground parking site in Beirut December 27, 2009. A bomb which exploded in Beirut on Saturday killed two Hamas members, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamist group in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday.
  13. A female member of Lebanon's Hezbollah cries during the Ashura ceremony held in Beirut's suburbs December 27, 2009. Ashura is the 10th day of the lunar month of Muharram when according to Islamic tradition Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, was killed in battle in 680 AD.
  14. Female members of Lebanon's Hezbollah cry during the Ashura ceremony held in Beirut's suburbs December 27, 2009. Ashura is the 10th day of the lunar month of Muharram when according to Islamic tradition Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, was killed in battle in 680 AD.
  15. Hezbollah flag is seen as Lebanese Hezbollah supporters gather to listen to the speech of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah during Ashoura day in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. Sunday's commemorations marked the climax of Ashoura, the yearly mourning period in which Shiite Muslims remember the seventh century death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Hussein, in a battle in the central city of Karbala.
  16. Female members of Lebanon's Hezbollah chant slogan during the Ashura ceremony held in Beirut's suburbs December 27, 2009. Ashura is the 10th day of the lunar month of Muharram when according to Islamic tradition Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, was killed in battle in 680 AD.

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