Hizballah Rocket Attack on Mt Hermon, Israel

Debka ^ | 17:17GMT April 7th 2002

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18:00 IT Sunday: Israeli Soldiers Injured in Hizballah Rocket and Shelling Attack on Mt Hermon and Shaaba Farms Positions.
Israeli Air and Artillery Strike Back.

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This is, by my tally, the 7th straight day of cross border mortar/missile attacks in the region.

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UPDATE

Two IDF soldiers were wounded Sunday afternoon - one very seriously and the second lightly - when Hezbollah guerillas fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at IDF posts on the Israel-Lebanon border. Positions in the Har Dov and Hermon regions came under fire.

The seriously wounded soldier was taken to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa for treatment.

The IDF troops replied with artillary shells, leading to a heavy exchange of fire. IAF helicopters were also mobilized in the area.

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Is the US going to tell Israel not to protect themselves? I wonder.

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http://www.reuters.co.il/news2000/N2S7LBE1.HTM

Israelis say Hizbollah fires on border communities

    JERUSALEM, April 7 (Reuters) - Hizbollah gunmen in southern 
Lebanon fired at two Israeli border communities on Sunday, 
wounding at least two people, Israeli security sources said.  
    They said the Israeli towns were evacuated after gunmen from 
the Shi'ite Muslim guerrilla group fired small arms and possibly 
heavier weapons at Israeli army guard posts in Menara and 
Avivim, farm communities abutting the border. 
    An army spokesman confirmed there had been cross-border 
gunfire by Hizbollah and said the guerrillas had also planted a 
booby-trapped bomb on the border patrol road which soldiers had 
safely defused. He had no information on casualties. 
    The attack followed exchanges of fire in the border-area 
foothills of the Golan Heights, with Israeli tanks and artillery 
answering a Hizbollah rocket and mortar barrage, a military 
spokesman said. 
    Israel is concerned that Hizbollah may be trying to open a 
second front in the border region in support of Palestinians 
after their towns in the West Bank were reoccupied by the 
Israeli army over the past 10 days. 
    ((Jerusalem newsroom, +972 2 537 0502, 
jerusalem.newsroom@reuters.com)) 
 
07 APR 2002 16:44:30
Israelis say Hizbollah fires on border communities

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Gee, where have I seen these pics before? How about in every post this AM.

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That cartoon on #3 speaks political truth. Bush tells Sharon to
'Withdraw without delay', but unofficially, he's givin' him "atta boys!".......
Colin Powell is playin' nice guy to the Arabs, however much he likes or dislikes it.........

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Yeah whatever. I do not think you need to post tour pics on every post this AM. Just my opinion. Do whatever you want.

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Israel should open the second front ASAP. Then probably the squeaking from C.Powell and other appeasers will stop

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Six IDF soldiers hurt in Hezbollah attacks on northern border

By Daniel Sobelman, Amos Harel and Uri Ash, Ha'aretz Correspondents, and agencies

Six IDF soldiers were wounded Sunday in two separate attacks by Hezbollah at Israeli military targets along the northern border.

Two IDF soldiers were wounded Sunday afternoon - one moderately and the second lightly - when Hezbollah guerillas fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at their IDF post in the Har Dov region.

The moderately wounded soldier was taken to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa for treatment.

A short time later, four female soldiers were injured, one moderately and three lightly, when mortar shells were fired at an IDF outpost in Moshav Avivim, in the Upper Galilee. The four were taken to Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safed.

The IDF troops replied with artillary shells, leading to a heavy exchange of fire. IAF helicopters were also mobilized in the area.

Hezbollah guerillas have repeatedly fired at IDF posts over the past week. It claims that Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000 is incomplete and that the Har Dov area is Lebanese territory given to the country by Syria.

The United Nations, however, has recognized Israel's pull-out from Lebanon after 18 years as complete and maintains that negotiations over the disputed region should be carried out between Israel and Syria.

Four Palestinians were detained by the Lebanese army for firing on an Israeli position in the village of Ghajar, Lebanese security officials said Sunday.

Five Israelis hurt in Ghajar
Five Israeli Arabs were injured Saturday evening when Hezbollah gunmen opened fire at an IDF post in the Arab village of Ghajar. Hezbollah militants also fired on two other posts along Israel's northern border, one in the Western Galillee area, and one in the mount Hermon area. IDF troops returned fire.

An eyewitness in the Arab village of Ghajar said two or three shells were launched at the village. One of the shells hit a house and injured three people. The three injured people are all members of one family, including an three-year-old boy who was seriously injured and taken by helicopter to the Rambam hospital in Haifa.

Lebanese army re-deploys along border
For the first time since the IDF withdrawal from south Lebanon in May 2000, the Lebanese army began to increase its presence near the border with Israel. Lebanese newspapers published Saturday pictures on Lebanese soldiers patrolling near the Kila village close to the Fatma gate. The papers reported that 400 soldiers were deployed in areas close to the border.

The redeployment comes after the Lebanese army arrested six members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in the Bekaa region on Friday. The six were charged with possession of surface-to-surface missiles and actually had a missile with them at the time of their arrest. Lebanese sources that security forces have arrested several other Palestinians in the past few days.

Lebanese state prosecutor, Adnan Addoum said Friday that a Palestinian officer by the name of Mohammed Alian, who is apparently a member of Fatah, had been arrested en route to Tzur from the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh and that the security forces had found detonators for operating explosives on his presence.

Addoum said that the Lebanese security and legal apparatuses would prevent hostilities of any sort from Lebanese territory. The Lebanese defense minister, Khalil al-Hrawi said Saturday in Beirut that the "position of the Lebanese government is not to allow military operations over the blue line, which Lebanon recognizes."

Reiterating his country's support for Hezbollah's operations in the Shaba Farms area, al-Hrawi said, however, that Lebanon "reserves the right of resistance against the enemy army and the liberation of conquered lands."

Syria moves troops in Lebanon
Syrian troops in Lebanon pulled out from their nearest positions to the Israeli border on Saturday, continuing a movement apparently designed to minimize the threat of Israeli attacks.

A Reuters correspondent said Syrian soldiers pulled out from their position on al-Awali River at the entrance of the port city of Sidon, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Shaba Farms

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So much for Bush telling others to "stay out"! How can anyone expect Israel to withdraw when this kind of crap is taking place? Let's hear Bush say time and time again for other Arab entities to stay out as he and his people keep calling for Israeli withdrawal.

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Latest Update from Debka

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19:45 IT Population in Galilee, N. Israel, Ordered into Bomb Shelters as Lebanese Hizballah Shelling and Rocket Attacks Intensify and Spread

Five Israeli Soldiers Injured - Two Seriously - at Shaaba Farms Positions and Near Kibbutz Avivim

Kibbutz Manarah Comes Under Fire

Israel Frontier Forces in State of Preparedness as Warplanes and Artillery Strike Back at Hizballah Firing Positions

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This is getting serious now.

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Apparently the young mr. assad does not want to lose his troops. I guess he figures the Israelis will remove the hamas people and anybody else in their way.

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Of course, that cartoon actually happened several years ago, the terrorists won a Darwin Award.