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| Hizbollah Attacks Israeli Posts in Shebaa Farms |
| 2004-06-08 |
| Lebanon’s Hizbollah guerrillas attacked Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms area Tuesday, one day after Israeli warplanes raided a Palestinian base near Beirut. begging for their turn in the barrel Israeli military sources in Jerusalem said one Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in the attack involving anti-tank missiles and mortar shells. Residents in Kfar Shouba village on Lebanon’s border with Israel said Israel responded with artillery fire on nearby villages. Israeli warplanes also flew over the area and were fired on by Hizbollah guerrillas using shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles, witnesses said. and they hit nada Hizbollah said it was retaliating for an Israeli attack deep inside Lebanese soil Monday, itself a response to rocket fire at an Israeli navy ship in the Mediterranean earlier that day. "Responding to the recent Israeli attacks, Hizbollah attacked two enemy Israeli positions at 3.05 p.m. (1205 GMT)," the Iranian and Syrian-backed group said in a statement. Despite the violence, the head of Israel’s northern command, said Israel did not want a flare-up with Lebanon. "We have no interest in escalation; we want the north to remain quiet. On the other hand, we cannot allow (the peace) to be broken," Maj. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazy told Israel radio. Hizbollah, which controls the Lebanese border area with Israel, says Shebaa Farms is occupied Lebanese territory, while the United Nations describes it as Israeli-occupied Syrian land. An Israeli military source confirmed Israeli positions were attacked with anti-tank missiles and mortar shells. "There was an attack on several IDF (Israeli army) posts in the area of Har Dov. We are still checking the situation," one source said. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 We have no interest in escalation; we want the north to remain quiet. On the other hand, we cannot allow (the peace) to be broken," Maj. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazy told Israel radio He said while deftly crushing a cockroach with his left pointy toed boot. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-06-08 6:26:17 PM |
| #1 "We have no interest in escalation; we want the north to remain quiet. On the other hand, we cannot allow (the peace) to be broken," Maj. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazy told Israel radio. snicker. translation: it's not our wish to have to spank you. |
| Posted by: B 2004-06-08 3:28:12 PM |