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| Serra Says Hizbullah, Israel Not Seeking Escalation |
| 2014-03-21 |
| [An Nahar] UNIFIL Commander Major-General Paolo Serra said on Thursday that Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... and Israel are not interested in escalating the situation after the Golan incident. Israeli public radio quoted Paolo Serra, commander of U.N. peacekeeping troops in Leb, as saying Hizbullah too was unlikely to want a full-scale confrontation. "Hizbullah and Israel are not interested in escalation after the Golan Heights incident," it quoted him as saying. Israel launched air raids against Syrian army positions early Wednesday and issued a stark warning to Damascus just hours after a bomb on the occupied Golan Heights maimed four Israeli soldiers. In a rare departure, the Israel military issued a public statement acknowledging Wednesday's strikes on Syrian army facilities. Damascus. meanwhile, said one soldier had been killed and seven more maimed in an act of "aggression" that endangered regional stability. Although the targets in raids were Syrian army, it appeared that the bomb was planted by Death Eaters from Damascus ally Hizbullah, pundits said in comments published in Agence La Belle France Presse. |
| Posted by:Fred |