LEBANON: SYRIAN WORKER KILLED & 3 OTHERS WOUNDED BY SHELL FIRE FROM ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION ZONE

Record ID: 276674

  • Title: LEBANON: SYRIAN WORKER KILLED & 3 OTHERS WOUNDED BY SHELL FIRE FROM ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION ZONE
  • Date: 18th April 2000
  • Summary: MAJDAL SILIM, LEBANON (APRIL 18, 2000)(REUTERS) 1. GV SHELLS EXPLODING ON HILLS OPPOSITE VILLAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.26 2. EXT EXTERIOR SYRIAN WORKER'S HOUSE 0.29 3. INT INTERIOR DAMAGE AND BLOODSTAINS (3 SHOTS) 0.45 TYRE, LEBANON (APRIL 18, 2000) (REUTERS) 4. EXT EXTERIOR NEJEM HOSPITAL NEAR TYRE 0.51 5. VARIOUS TWO WOUNDED
  • Embargoed: 3rd May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: MAJDAL SILIM AND TYRE, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVACVM2SC4JZ777HFQIJPU4PJ3XT
  • Story Text: In southern Lebanon, a Syrian worker has been killed
    and three of his colleagues wounded by shells fired from the
    direction of Israel's occupation zone.

    A number of shells hit the worker's one-room house in
    the frontline village of Majdal Silim on Tuesday (April 18).

    Earlier, Hizbollah guerrillas had lobbed mortars on a
    nearby post of Israel's South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia.

    Further east, witnesses and security sources said several
    homes were damaged by artillery fired from inside the zone,
    but
    there were no immediate reports of casualties.

    Hizbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, is waging a
    war of attrition to end Israel's 22-year-old occupation of
    south
    Lebanon.

    On Monday (April 17), Israel told the United Nations that
    it would complete a withdrawal from the area by July 7.

    An Israeli pullout without a peace deal with Lebanon or
    Syria has heightened fears that radical guerrillas would
    launch attacks on northern Israel, which would prompt fierce
    retaliatory strikes.
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