MIDEAST-ISRAEL/LEBANON-AMVID Amvid shows immediate aftermath of Hezbollah attack

Record ID: 398936

  • Title: MIDEAST-ISRAEL/LEBANON-AMVID Amvid shows immediate aftermath of Hezbollah attack
  • Date: 28th January 2015
  • Summary: ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER, ISRAEL (JANUARY 15, 2015) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS) SMOKE RISING FOLLOWING HEZBOLLAH ATTACK ON ISRAELI FORCES
  • Embargoed: 12th February 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABMOZGH3C85R1CNDY6RNX4TE6
  • Story Text: Amateur video and still photographs obtained by Reuters on Wednesday (January 28) show the immediate aftermath of a Hezbollah attack on an Israeli convoy which killed two Israeli soldiers.
    A Spanish peacekeeper was also killed in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel that has raised the threat of a full-blown conflict between the militant Islamist group and Israel.
    In the biggest escalation since a 2006 war, the soldiers were killed when Hezbollah fired a missile at a convoy of Israeli military vehicles on the frontier with Lebanon.
    The peacekeeper, serving with a U.N. monitoring force in southern Lebanon, was killed as Israel responded with air strikes and artillery fire, a U.N. spokesman and Spanish officials said.
    The amateur video shows Israeli military vehicles burning after they were hit by Hezbollah missiles.
    The Israeli military confirmed the death of the soldiers, who were driving along a road next to the fence that marks the hilly frontier. Hospital officials said a further seven had been wounded, although none had life-threatening injuries.
    Hezbollah said one of its brigades in the area had carried out the attack, which appeared to be in retaliation for a January 18 Israeli air strike in southern Syria that killed several Hezbollah members and an Iranian general.
    Tensions in the region, where the frontiers of Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet and militant groups opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are active, have been bubbling for months but have boiled over in the past 10 days.
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