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Article: Israel Attacks Lebanese Village for Injury of Two Soldiers
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 29, 2001
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Israeli troops bombed a Lebanese village along the border on
Friday as a retaliation for attacks by Lebanese resistance guerrilla
group Hezbollah on Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms,
Oriental radio reported.
Hezbollah, or Party of God, hit an Israeli position in Shebaa
Farms with mortar shells, leaving two Israeli soldiers wounded, the
radio said.
Israel retaliated immediately with bombard of the border village
of Kafra Shuba. Some 14 houses in the village were damaged, it
added. Israeli warplanes also launched two raids on surrounding
areas.
There has been no report on casualties in the Israeli retaliatory
attacks.
The radio quoted witnesses as saying that Israel was enhancing ...