LEBANON: ISRAELI JETS ATTACK POWER STATIONS IN BSALIM AND BRITAL.

Record ID: 355145

  • Title: LEBANON: ISRAELI JETS ATTACK POWER STATIONS IN BSALIM AND BRITAL.
  • Date: 5th May 2000
  • Summary: BSALIM, LEBANON (MAY 5, 2000)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN: EARLY MORNING AMATH SHOTS AT BSALIM POWER STATION 0.09 2. GV/MV: SMOKE DRIFTING FROM BURNED OUT TRANSFORMERS (5 SHOTS) 0.32 3. MV: WORKERS INSPECTING DAMAGE/ FIREFIGHTER SPRAYS TRANSFORMER WITH WATER (4 SHOTS) 0.51 4. GV: FIRE FIGHTERS SPRAYING WATER ON POWER STATION SHORTLY
  • Embargoed: 20th May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BSALIM,BRITAIL AND TENAYEL, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVAAK6ETW2SLZALMD3NDKJ9O3SIE
  • Story Text: Israeli jets raided Lebanon in the early hours of
    Friday morning (May 5), striking at two power stations, a
    guerrilla ammunition depot and blowing a crater in the main
    highway between Beirut and Damascus.

    Israel said its planes had fired on targets in
    Lebanon in retaliation for a Hizbollah guerrilla Katyusha
    rocket attack on northern Israel on Thursday (May 4) in
    which an Israeli soldier was killed.

    Israeli raids destroyed one power station at Bsalim and
    another at Brital in the Bekaa Valley.Israeli jets also
    struck the Beirut-Damascus road near the village of Tenayel,
    10 km (6 miles) from the Syrian-Lebanese border and just 100
    metres (328 ft) from a Syrian intelligence post.

    Witnesses said Israeli warplanes attacked another power
    station in Dier Amar, near the northern Palestinian refugee
    camp of Beddawi.Israeli jets also flew above Beirut where
    they broke the sound barrier.

    The raids on Lebanese infrastructure are the second this
    year.In February Israel destroyed three power stations,
    prompting strong Arab condemnation.


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