LEBANON: HIZBOLLAH ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF PLANTING A ROADSIDE BOMB IN SOUTH LEBANON WHICH KILLED FOUR PEOPLE

Record ID: 399072

  • Title: LEBANON: HIZBOLLAH ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF PLANTING A ROADSIDE BOMB IN SOUTH LEBANON WHICH KILLED FOUR PEOPLE
  • Date: 15th May 1999
  • Summary: JEZZINE, KFARFILA VILLAGE, LEBANON (MAY 14, 1999)(REUTERS) JEZZINE ENCLAVE 1. LV/SLV FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR ONE OF THE CHRISTIAN VICTIMS OF EXPLOSION / PROCESSION PASSES BY FIRE SET IN PROTEST AT THE BOMB (4 SHOTS) 0.30 2. SLV WAILING WOMAN ESCORTED TO CHURCH 0.39 3. SV/SLV GRIEVING RELATIVES CRYING OVER CASKETS INSIDE CHURCH (2 SHOTS
  • Embargoed: 30th May 1999 13:00
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  • Location: JEZZINE AND KFARFILA VILLAGE, BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVACDBF9HZCK5EVW8J1QTXWE1XQX
  • Story Text: Hizbollah Islamic fundamentalists accused Israel of
    planting a roadside bomb in south Lebanon which killed four
    people, including a child and an officer of the Israeli-backed
    South Lebanon Army on Thursday.

    A woman was led through the streets of Jezzine wailing
    on Friday (May 14) as she attended the funeral of a woman and
    child killed in an explosion.

    The roadside bomb went off in the Jezzine enclave on
    Thursday (May 13), killing an officer in the Israeli-run South
    Lebanon Army (SLA), a child and two women.

    A third woman was seriously wounded, a source in the
    Israeli-funded SLA said.The civilian victims were all
    believed related to the officer.

    A second funeral took place in the village of Kfarfila,
    where hundred of mourners followed the coffin of Abbas Zein.

    Hizbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem
    said in an interview with Reuters on Friday (May 14) that
    "Following the Israeli failure to carry out direct attacks,
    they tried the indirect methods"...it carried out the Jezzine
    massacre with the aim of evading responsibility for its
    involvement in the south."
    Hizbollah also held funerals for two Moslem guerrillas
    killed by Israeli air attacks on its bases on Thursday.

    The fighting comes four days before Israelis vote in an
    election where its occupation of southern Lebanon -- and the
    steady death toll its forces suffer -- has been an issue.

    The deaths in south Lebanon represented the highest toll
    in a 24-hour period since Israeli jets killed a Lebanese woman
    and her six children in December.

    Only one civilian had been killed in south Lebanon
    fighting this year until the latest violence.Under a 1996
    agreement, both sides were to avoid inflicting civilian casualties.

    The air attack near the village of Majdal Silm that killed
    the two Hizbollah men was Israel's 53rd of the year.

    Hizbollah (Party of God) leads a guerrilla campaign to end
    Israel's occupation of south Lebanon.Israel, defying a United
    Nations resolution, has occupied parts of the south since 1978
    and set up the "security zone" , saying it needed to prevent
    cross-border attacks.


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