Hezbollah supporters, hold posters of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan NAsrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

Hezbollah supporters, hold posters of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday Aug. 14, 2009. The leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah Sheik Hassan NAsrallah says his group will hit Israel's main city of Tel Aviv if Israeli forces attack Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs.

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  1. Palestinian youth stand at the site of a destroyed building, following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  2. Palestinian woman walks at the site where the Israeli carried out an airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  3. A Palestinian man examines a damaged building, following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The Israeli army says it has carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in the southern Gaza Strip in response to militant rocket fire on Israel in recent days. Palestinian medical officials reported no injuries or deaths.
  4. Palestinians tries to break off bricks from a building at an abandoned airport that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip February 10, 2010. Israel launched an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket fire, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday.
  5. Palestinians survey a building at an abandoned airport after it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip February 10, 2010. Israel launched an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian rocket fire, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attends an Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 8, 2010.
  13. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (front) attends a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 8, 2010.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.

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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. In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, released by Hezbollah media office, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with the political leader of the Palestinian Hamas Khaled Mashaal, left, in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon. The chief of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group discussed Friday with the political leader of the Palestinian Hamas Khaled Mashaal U.S. attempts to resume the Mideast peace process saying they come amid Arab "weakness" in front of American pressures.
  10. 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.
  11. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen speaking via a video link as journalists listen to him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  12. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, is seen speaking via a video link as journalists listen to him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  13. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, is seen speaking via a video link as journalists listen to him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  14. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen speaking via a video link as journalists raise their hands to ask questions of him during a press conference in which he read the group's new political manifesto, the second since Hezbollah was born in the early 1980s, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Nov. 30, 2009. Nasrallah said Monday the group will continue to arm to face Israeli future threats adding that it will never recognize any peace agreement signed by Arab governments with the Jewish State. He added that "armed struggle" was the only way to gain back Arab lands captured by Israel in the past decades.
  15. In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, released by Hezbollah media office, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, third right, meets with the political leader of the Palestinian Hamas Khaled Mashaal, third left, in the presence of members of Hamas political bureau Oussama Hamdan, right, and Mohammed Nasr, left, Mashaal deputy Moussa Abou Marzouk, second left, and Hezbollah political council member Hassan Hadraj, second right, in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon. The chief of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group discussed Friday with the political leader of the Palestinian Hamas Khaled Mashaal U.S. attempts to resume the Mideast peace process saying they come amid Arab "weakness" in front of American pressures.
  16. 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.

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