Two Israeli soldiers are taking aims at the Israeli-Lebanese
border, July 19, 2006. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a latest clash in a nine-day-old
confrontation with Lebanese Hezbollah militants along the border with Lebanon on
Thursday, Israeli army said.
Hezbollah fired an anti-tank rocket on an armored vehicle and wounded two
soldiers, the army said, adding that they were moderately wounded.
The army didn't disclose what caused the exchange of fire between the two
sides north of Avivim, the area on the border where two soldiers were killed and
nine wounded in ground fighting on Wednesday.
Israeli warplanes dropped bombs late Wednesday night on a bunker in southern
Beirut, acting on IDF intelligence, where Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was
thought to be, the military said.
However, Hezbollah said shortly after the bombing that no one was killed in
the raid and the building which Israel described as a bunker was actually a
mosque that was under construction.
Israeli forces have crossed into southern Lebanon to carry out "pinpoint"
attacks on Hezbollah outposts on Wednesday, an Israeli army spokesman said.
Violence between Israel and Hezbollah was erupted after the Shiite militant
group kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight in a cross-border attack
on July 12.
More than 300 Lebanese were killed, 1,000 wounded and half a million
displaced, while 29 Israelis, including 14 soldiers have been killed in the
nine-day-old clashes.
Israel has rejected calls for ceasefire unless Hezbollah freed the two
captive Israeli soldiers unconditionally and the Lebanese army deployed along
the border with Israel.