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She was nine years old and had suffered a serious leg injury; collateral damage from an explosion in Gaza. Unable to walk, the child was literally carried through conflict by her exhausted mother. The family spent the last few months as refugees in Egypt and the week before Christmas she was medically evacuated to Ireland.

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers yesterday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese security official and a war monitor said.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who in 1990 was an up-and-coming Israeli politician, urged Ireland that year not to &lag behind& other countries in strengthening diplomatic ties with Israel amid debate over opening an embassy in Dublin.