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Three Lebanese stewardesses pose for a photo after
arriving at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport on Aug. 17, 2006.
A passenger plane of Lebanon's Middle East Airline landed in Beirut at
about 1:00 p.m. (1000 GMT) Thursday. It was the first civil plane arriving
in Beirut since Israel imposed an air blockade on Lebanon nearly five
weeks ago following the eruption of fighting between Israel and Lebanon's
Hezbollah.(Xinhua Photo)
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BEIRUT, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A passenger plane touched down at Beirut's
international airport on Thursday, the first since Israel imposed an air
blockade on Lebanon nearly five weeks ago following the eruption of fighting
between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah.
A passenger plane of Lebanon's Middle East Airline landed
inBeirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport at about 1:00 p.m. (1000 GMT),
said witnesses.
The airport had been forced to close since July 13 after two of its runways
were damaged by Israeli bombardments and under Israel's air blockade.
Only planes carrying humanitarian relief were allowed to land in the
airport.
But Israel has maintained sea and land blockades, imposed on Lebanon
together with the air close-off.
The 34-day-long fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which was sparked by
Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12, ended on Monday under a
UN Security Council resolution.
Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian disaster in
Lebanonas Israel sealed the country during the conflict.
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