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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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 Human Rights Watch Recent Press Releases & Letters Lebanon: Letter to President Emile Lahoud (July 31) No New U.S. Missiles for Israel (May 24) "Israel has flouted international humanitarian law by attacking Lebanese electrical stations three times in less than a year." South Lebanon: Rights Crisis Looms (May 23) "The civilian population in Lebanon must be protected as the withdrawal speeds up. The Lebanese government has a responsibility to safeguard these people. And the Israeli military must refrain from indiscriminate attacks on unarmed residents who are returning to their villages in the zone." 
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