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IAF planes strike Hezbollah position in south Lebanon
Israel Air Force planes on Sunday evening struck a Hezbollah position in south Lebanon in response to the organizationâs firing anti-aircraft shells earlier in the day which fell inside Israeli territory. The anti-aircraft shells had hit an Israel Defense Forces base, causing no casualties, security sources said.
| At least they hit something, unlike Hek's boys. |
The Hezbollah salvo came shortly after IAF warplanes flew over the frontier and violated Lebanese airspace. The Shiâite militant group did not immediately comment.
| "As we are running for our lives, we have no time to say more!" |
The IDF issued a statement saying the airforce attacked Hezbollah gunners that had fired a salvo of anti-aircraft shells into northern Israel. "Following the Hezbollah attack, the Israeli air force targeted and destroyed a Hezbollah outpost in the western sector of southern Lebanon, from which a canon was used to fire on northern Israel...under the guise of anti-aircraft fire," the army said in a statement. The attack, which resulted in shell fragments landing in an army base east of the border town of Shlomi, came amid heightened tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. There is no sign that Iran and its Lebanese surrogate are abandoning the friction along Lebanonâs border with Israel, which is still considered to be Hezbollahâs primary focus.
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-06-21 |
