ISRAEL/ JERUSALEM: ANTI AIRCRAFT SHELLED FIRED FROM LEBANON BY HIZBOLLAH GUERILLAS KILLS ONE AND WOUNDS FOUR IN NORTHERN ISRAEL

Record ID: 400062

  • Title: ISRAEL/ JERUSALEM: ANTI AIRCRAFT SHELLED FIRED FROM LEBANON BY HIZBOLLAH GUERILLAS KILLS ONE AND WOUNDS FOUR IN NORTHERN ISRAEL
  • Date: 10th August 2003
  • Summary: (U4) SHLOMI, ISRAEL (AUGUST 10, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SMV ISRAELI SECURITY AT POINT OF IMPACT OF ANTI AIRCRAFT SHELLS PAN TO FENCE 0.10 2. ZOOM IN TO HOLE IN METAL FENCE WHERE ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELLS LANDED, PAN DOWN OF WALL AND DEBRIS ON SEAT 0.23 3. VARIOUS, ISRAELI SOLDIERS AT AREA WHERE SHELLS FELL 0.36 4. WIDE / PAN ARE
  • Embargoed: 25th August 2003 13:00
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  • Location: SHLOMI, ISRAEL/JERUSALEM
  • City:
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA176SV7P47ZXOBPF1U4JJG2EB4
  • Story Text: An anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon
    has slammed into northern Israel, killing one and wounding four.




    An anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbollah in Lebanon killed
    one person and wounded four others in northern Israel on
    Sunday (August 10), raising the prospect of tough retaliation
    for the first such death since Israeli forces quit south Lebanon
    three years ago.

    The shell slammed into the northern Israeli border town
    of Shlomi. The incident came two days after Hizbollah
    attacked Israeli army posts at Shebaa Farms, an area the group
    regards as Lebanese territory and the U.N. defines as
    Israeli-occupied Syrian land.

    Hizbollah anti-aircraft shells have been falling regularly
    on Israeli communities near the border in response to what
    the group has called incursions by Israeli planes, but they
    have caused no serious casualties until now.

    Israel has said repeatedly it holds Syria, the main
    powerbroker in Lebanon, and the Lebanese government
    responsible for reining in Hizbollah, and would not
    tolerate attacks.

    "The situation where one side is escalation in the
    northern border and the other party is restrained cannot
    continue. Israel has the right of self-defence and it has
    the responsibility to defend its citizens and so it will
    do," said Foreign Ministry official Gideon Meir.

    Israeli troops withdrew from south Lebanon in 2000,
    ending a 22-year occupation under daily Hizbollah assault.

    As Hizbollah TV reported that Israeli warplanes raided
    the outskirts of a south Lebanon village, apparently in
    retaliation for the shelling, Israelis wounded in the
    attack were being treated in hospital in Shlomi.

    Local officials said a young man was killed and four
    other people were wounded in the attack.

    "Nobody will enter (Israel northern city of) Shlomi.

    No Palestinians will step into Shlomi. My little brother
    was killed (today)," an Israeli man cried as he and others
    gathered round the hospital beds of those injured in the
    shelling.

    Later, Lebanese Al-Manar television reported Israeli
    planes attacked the outskirts of the village of Tair Harfa
    in south Lebanon and carried out a second strike in the
    nearby Tellat al-Kharba area.

    Witnesses told Reuters they heard the sound of several
    explosions in the area. They said Israeli planes and
    helicopters had been flying over south Lebanon all morning
    and continued their overflights into Lebanese territory
    after the airstrikes.






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