SOUTH LEBANON: U.N. PEACEKEEPERS REMOVE BODIES OF AT LEAST TWO HIZBOLLAG GUERRILLAS KILLED IN ISRAELI AIR RAIDS.

Record ID: 350025

  • Title: SOUTH LEBANON: U.N. PEACEKEEPERS REMOVE BODIES OF AT LEAST TWO HIZBOLLAG GUERRILLAS KILLED IN ISRAELI AIR RAIDS.
  • Date: 4th May 2000
  • Summary: KAWKABA, SOUTH LEBANON (MAY 4, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/CU: UNITED NATIONS (U.N.) SOLDIERS STANDING NEXT TO BODIES (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. CU/PAN: MACHINE GUNS ON GROUND 0.29 3. GV: U.N SOLDIER UNVEILING THE BODY 0.32 4. CU: HAND GRENADE NEXT TO THE BODY 0.36 5. CU/PAN: EXPLOSIVE DEVICES ON THE GROUND 0.41 6. GV: U.N
  • Embargoed: 19th May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: KAWKABA, SOUTH LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVACL8SS9HZ4KIFBDDR61N62HBQD
  • Story Text: U.N peacekeepers have removed the bodies of at least
    two Hizbollah guerrilla fighters killed in overnight Israeli
    air raids on south Lebanon.

    The latest deaths coincide with a visit by U.N.special
    envoy Terje Roed-Larsen for talks on Israel's planned
    withdrawal from south Lebanon and the future of the
    international peacekeepers deployed there for the past 22
    years.

    The U.N.Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday
    (May 4) removed the bodies of two guerrillas from the
    outskirts of Kawkaba, a village inside Israel's south Lebanon
    occupation zone.

    UNIFIL were searching the area for at least three more
    corpses after being tipped off by a military official in
    Israel's South Lebanon Army.

    The casualties brought to 10 the number of guerrillas
    killed this year in south Lebanon.

    On Wednesday, Israel blasted suspected guerrilla targets
    inside and outside the zone, just hours after 12 civilians,
    including a two-month-old baby, were wounded in an air raid.

    An 80-year-old woman and her daughter were killed
    overnight by a rocket fired from the direction of the
    Israeli-occupied area and their bodies were recovered by aid
    workers on Thursday.

    Hizbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, is waging a war of
    attrition to end Israel's 22-year occupation of southern
    Lebanon.Israel has declared it would quit the area by July,
    but the guerrillas have yet to say whether they will continue
    to attack Israeli territory after the pullout.Israel has said
    that it wants the United Nations to support its withdrawal.
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