Hezbollah bombards Israeli army

[underthedome]

Lebanese guerrillas from the Hezbollah movement have bombarded an Israeli army post in the disputed border area.
Israeli forces responded by shelling the hills around two Lebanese villages. Initial reports say there have been Israeli casualties in the exchange.

Hezbollah fired Katyusha rockets and mortars at two Israeli outposts in the Shebaa Farms area and shelled another in Israeli-occupied Syrian territory.

It is the most serious outbreak of hostilities in the area for a month.

After the initial salvoes, Israeli warplanes bombed areas around the two villages, Kfarshuba and Shebaa.

Hezbollah fired about 20 rockets and mortars and the Israelis responded with about 50 shells, Lebanese security sources said. Four missiles were fired by the Israeli warplanes.


After the guerrillas opened fire black smoke could be seen rising from army posts in the mountainous zone.

The water-rich Shebaa Farms lie at the convergence of Israeli, Lebanese and Syrian territory.

They were captured by Israel from Syria in 1967 but the area is now claimed by Lebanon, with Syrian backing.

The United Nations has ruled that the area belongs to Syria and says its fate is linked to the occupied Golan Heights - which is subject to separate UN resolutions telling Israel to leave.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4634647.stm

[Oversea Visitor]

1. What happen to the roadmap

Grrr talk one thing do another. Guess roadmap gone out of the window with the invasion of Iraq.

[Igel]

2. Different people, different groups.

But I'm sure you recognize a provocation when you see one.

Things are going too well. So, post hoc, Syria transfers a patch of land it lost in a war and no longer controls to a client state. Client state says, "Ah, yes, that *is* ours ... we forgot about that!" Client militia rouses rabble over the newly-acquired-yet-always-possessed territory.

Everybody else in the world recognizes one set of borders, and says there is no territory occupied by said client state. Syria + now former client state and militia-on-a-leash recognize a different border, which means there is occupied land for which jihad/war of liberation may be waged.