AP: Lebanon to Compensate Bombing Victims

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Lebanon to Compensate Bombing Victims

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

(08-30) 03:40 PDT BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) --

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Wednesday that his government
would pay $33,000 per house to compensate residents whose homes were
destroyed by Israeli attacks.

Saniora said 130,000 housing units had been destroyed or damaged in more
than a month of Israeli airstrikes and ground fighting with Hezbollah
guerrillas, mostly in south Lebanon. He did not give a breakdown of the
completely destroyed houses.

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While Hezbollah launched rebuilding campaigns in its strongholds within days
of the Aug. 14 cease-fire, the Lebanese government was criticized for a slow
response.

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Saniora also said he would ask delegates to the donors' conference in Sweden
to take responsibility for rebuilding specific villages hit by Israeli attacks.
Organizers of the conference were aiming to raise $500 million in aid for
Lebanon, Sweden's aid minister said Tuesday.

Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/30/international/i033519D88.DTL

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