ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER: HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS FIRE AT ISRAELI POSITIONS IN DISPUTED SHEBAA FARMS REGION.

Record ID: 400158

  • Title: ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER: HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS FIRE AT ISRAELI POSITIONS IN DISPUTED SHEBAA FARMS REGION.
  • Date: 24th January 2002
  • Summary: (U5) ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER (JANUARY 23, 2002)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV/GV/ZOOM: SMOKE RISING FROM HILLS ON THE ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER FOLLOWING A HIZBOLLAH ATTACK ON AN ISRAELI MILITARY POSITION/ SOUND OF SHELLING/ MUSHROOM CLOUDS RISING FROM HILLS (3 SHOTS) 0.41 2. LV: AREA OF BORDER BETWEEN LEBANON AND ISRAEL - ISRAELI ARMY BASE SEN IN DIST
  • Embargoed: 8th February 2002 12:00
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  • Location: ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER
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  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA36LYPEQ938B653HGUFJDMGOUZ
  • Story Text: Hizbollah guerrillas have fired at Israeli positions in
    the disputed Shebaa Farms region on the Lebanese-Israeli
    border, drawing Israeli shell fire in retaliation.



    Security sources and witnesses said on Wednesday
    (January 23) Hizbollah guerrillas fired mortar rounds at the
    Israeli positions and Israeli troops responded with shelling,
    near the Lebanese village of Kfar Shouba. Israeli planes also
    attacked a mountain top in the area.

    There were no immediate reports of casualties.

    It was the first Hizbollah attack on the area since
    October.

    The group has clashed with Israeli troops in Shebaa Farms,
    which adjoin the Lebanese border and the Israeli-occupied
    Golan Heights, since Israel ended its 22-year occupation of
    south Lebanon in 2000.

    Hizbollah, its Syrian backers and Beirut claim the area as
    Lebanese soil, but the United Nations regards the Shebaa Farms
    as Israeli-occupied Syrian land.

    The shelling on Wednesday came a day after a Palestinian
    gunman killed two women and wounded 14 people at the center of
    Jerusalem, before he was killed by Israeli forces. Earlier on
    Tuesday (January 22) Israel had killed four Palestinian
    militants in a raid on building which the Israeli army said
    housed what could be the largest explosives laboratory ever
    discovered in the West Bank.


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