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In an extraordinarily sweeping action, on January 7, 1999, twenty-five members of the families of five brothers - including their wives, sixty-year-old mother, and sixteen children between the ages of nine months and thirteen years old - were expelled from Sheba'.49 The expulsion followed the imprisonment on December 27, 1998, of two of the brothers, Ismail Naba', thirty-five, and Hassan, twenty-seven, both traders, in the wake of the December 26 killing of Ghassan Daher, the head of SLA security in Sheba'. Read More..
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 Civilians in the Occupied Zone "Since 1985, hundreds if not thousands of Lebanese civilians have been ordered to leave their homes and villages without notice and with no means of appeal. They have been summarily dumped in a no man's land without any possessions save the clothes on their backs. This cruel and illegal dispossession has destroyed the lives of innocent Lebanese families, and it must stop." Human Rights Watch, November 1999 
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