Hezbollah Retaliates After Zionist Attack

Date: 07 October 2014 - 21:18

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BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement on Tuesday claimed a bomb attack against Israeli troops on the line with Occupied Palestine that wounded two soldiers.
Hezbollah fighters "detonated an explosive device on the Shebaa hills against a motorized Israeli patrol causing a number of injuries among the occupation's soldier", the resistance movement said in a statement.
It said the attack was carried out by the "martyr Hassan Ali Haidar unit", which is named for a Hezbollah member killed on September 5 when a Zionist listening device in Lebanon was detonated remotely as he tried to dismantle it.
The occupying regime of Israel confirmed two soldiers were wounded in the blast, and an army spokeswoman said the attack took place "on the Israeli side of the border".
The line between Lebanon and Occupied Palestine is often tense, and on Sunday, Zionist troops shot and wounded a Lebanese soldier along the so-called Blue Line.
But Tuesday's incident was the first time Hezbollah has carried out an attack against Israeli forces in the area since a March blast that the Zionist regime said caused no casualties.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for that attack a month later, with its chief Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah saying it was "part of the reply" to Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon.
The occupying regime of Israel fought a bloody war against Hezbollah in 2006, which killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and some 160 Zionists, almost all soldiers.
The Blue Line was drawn up by the UN in 2000, after Zionist troops withdrew, ending a 22-year occupation of south Lebanon.
The attack came a day after an assault by militants on Hezbollah positions in the border town of Arsal which coincided with Israeli airstrikes.
The offensive was the first of its kind apparently coordinated between the occupying regime of Israel and militants fighting to topple the Syrian government.
Tel Aviv has already treated militants injured in the occupied Golan Heights, with   the regime’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu visiting them in hospital.
On Monday, no sooner had Israeli warplanes bombarded Shebaa Farms in southern Lebanon than hundreds of Nusra Front militants raided a Hezbollah position in Arsal.
The resistance fighters however repulsed the offensive, killing at least 50 takfiris and capturing several others.
The offensive involved hundreds of militants attacking at least 10 Hezbollah bases along a mountainous range close to the Syrian border in the latest spillover of violence from the war next door.
As the assault began Hezbollah reinforcements from the eastern Bekaa region of Lebanon joined in the battles.
Armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, the militants attacked a large area of territory stretching from south of the town of Baalbek up to areas close to the border town of Arsal.
Violence from Syria has often spread into Arsal and surrounding areas, which are also hosting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
In August ISIL and Nusra Front militants stormed Arsal in the worst spillover of Syria's war into its neighbor to date, killing and capturing members of the Lebanese military. They have since killed at least three of the captive soldiers and are holding an unknown number of others.