Israeli warplanes fired missiles near Lebanese border towns on Saturday after Hizbollah guerrillas attacked Israeli positions in a disputed frontier region, witnesses and security officials said. Hizbollah said it attacked seven Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms area near the border between Lebanon, Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war. Al-Manar, Hizbollah's television station, said two Israeli Humvee military vehicles were also hit. "The Islamic resistance confirms that it is carrying out its duty of liberating every inch of Lebanese land that is still under occupation," the Shi'ite Muslim group said in a statement.
They've been rarin' to go for awhile. They see this as their moment, opening up a second front. |