Continued Israeli aggressions against South Lebanon
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 5/18/2000

The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday escalated their aggressions against Lebanon. The Israeli jets raided the areas situated to the north of the occupied part of South Lebanon.

In a statement the resistance said that the Israeli warplanes carried out within 15 minutes on Wednesday evening 6 raids against Habboush spring course in al-Tuffah district and that several missiles were dropped in these raids.

The occupation forces on Wednesday afternoon, bombarded the outskirts of Eita al-Jabal, Hadatha, Haris, Serbin and Rashaf and the Israeli enemy bombardment coupled with mock and provocative raids carried out by the Israeli warplanes over the central sector of South Lebanon, dropping thermal balloons.

Meantime, the Israeli occupation forces shelled with heavy artillery al-Jabbour castle, the woods of Abi rashed, Tell al-Rahayat, the heights of Jabal al-Daher and al-Deidba, the outskirts of Ein Fajour farm in the western Bekaa.

The bombardment was accompanied by a vast mopping up operation with machine guns against the olive tree farms to the south of Qelya town, al-Leitani river course, al-Dallafa bridge surrounding and al-Daher mountain heights.

In retaliation, the Lebanese national resistance attacked an Israeli on-foot patrol while guarding several military vehicles in al-Rayhan barracks in the eastern sector of South Lebanon.

In a statement, the resistance said its men used rockets and achieved precise hits.

The resistance men also attacked the same group with rockets and accurate hits were scored.

The Lebanese resistance men also attacked the Israeli and its Lahd hireling militia position in Dhour al-Kassarat inside the occupied part of South Lebanon and direct hits were achieved.

The resistance men also carried out a series of operations against the occupation forces and their Lahd agents in Burket Reshe, Daher al-Jamal areas, Israeli moves in the surrounding of al-Qubba position.

An Israeli military spokesman admitted that one member of the SLA was wounded in South Lebanon as a mortar fired by the resistance men went off.

The Israeli spokesman added the incident took place in the eastern sector of the region occupied by Israel in south Lebanon.

Meanwhile, three members of the Lahd SLA agents on Wednesday fled their militias and surrendered themselves to one of the advanced positions for the Lebanese national resistance in the central sector of South Lebanon.

In a statement, the resistance said that the three fleeing agents are from contingent no. 70 of the SLA. They are Muhammad Mahmoud Sweidan, Hussein Hassan Sweidan and Ali Hussein Farhat and the three men are from Adshit al-Qasir town.

The statement remarked that the fleeing operations are increasingly continuously following the states of collapse and chaos among the militia members due to the heavy strikes of the resistance men against the Israeli occupation forces and their agents.

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