LEBANON: HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS ATTACK ISRAELI TROOPS OCCUPYING FOOTHILLS OF GOLAN HEIGHTS

Record ID: 355477

  • Title: LEBANON: HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS ATTACK ISRAELI TROOPS OCCUPYING FOOTHILLS OF GOLAN HEIGHTS
  • Date: 9th April 2002
  • Summary: (W6) ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, ISRAELI SIDE (APRIL 7, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. MV ISRAELI SOLDIERS ZOOM IN GV SMOKE FROM EXPLOSIONS ON HAR DAR MOUNTAIN; SMOKE FROM EXPLOSIONS ON HAR DAR MOUNTAIN; AV ISRAELI PLANE FIRING OVER HIZBOLLAH POSITIONS; SMOKE FROM EXPLOSIONS ON HILLS; AV ISRAELI PLANE FLYING OVERHEAD/ FIRING AT HIZBOLLAH POSITIONS; SLV SMOKE FROM EXPLOSION
  • Embargoed: 24th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, ISRAELI SIDE / KFAR SHOUBA, SOUTH LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVAC03IVPEIO23MPAC1O3Q9S90Z3
  • Story Text: Hizbollah guerrillas have attacked Israeli troops
    occupying the foothills of the Golan Heights and Israel
    responded by firing artillery and rockets into south Lebanon.

    In Jerusalem on Sunday (April 7, 2002) an Israeli security
    source said residents of Israeli border communities were
    ordered into bomb shelters after Hizbollah gunmen fired small
    arms and possibly heavier weapons at Israeli army guard posts
    near the Lebanese border.

    Two soldiers were wounded, they said. Hizbollah officials
    in Beirut declined to comment.

    The incidents fanned fears in Israel that the
    Syrian-backed group is trying to open a second front with
    Israel, which has launched an offensive on Palestinian cities
    it has branded as "breeding grounds for terrorism" after a
    wave of suicide bombings.

    Palestinians say the military campaign, in which
    Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has been surrounded in his
    West Bank headquarters, is designed to permanently occupy
    their cities and topple his Palestinian Authority.

    Hizbollah has attacked Israeli positions in Shebaa Farms,
    a strip of land on the foothills of the Golan, almost daily
    since Israel begin its West Bank assault. A volley of rockets
    has also been fired at Israeli targets from Lebanon in recent
    days.

    A Reuters correspondent said Hizbollah fighters shot
    mortar rounds and anti-tank missiles at Israeli posts in
    Shebaa Farms on Sunday (April 7). Fire was seen coming from at
    least one Israeli position.

    Israeli artillery shelled the edges of Lebanese border
    villages, while Israeli jets fired rockets at Abou Kamha,
    around 10 km (six miles) northwest of Shebaa Farms. A
    75-year-old Lebanese man was wounded by flying glass when an
    Israeli shell smashed into his house in the border town of
    Kfar Shouba.

    Witnesses said Hizbollah fighters fired surface-to-air
    missiles at the jets, but had hit none of them. In a statement
    the group said it had attacked in response to Israeli shelling
    of Lebanese territory.


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