In retaliation to Israeli aggressions, Lebanese resistance bombards Shebaa farms
Lebanon-Israel, Military, 4/27/2002

The Israeli occupation forces on Friday bombarded several southern Lebanese areas by heavy artillery.

Lebanese security sources said the Israeli artillery stations in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa farms bombarded Burket al-Naqqar and the surrounding of Halta and Kafer Shouba. The shells fell on the road linking Kafer Shouba town to Shebaa. No direct hits were scored among the civilians.

The sources said that the bombardment also targeted the surrounding of Kafer Hammam, al-Habareyah, al-Mari, Rashaya al-fakhar, Halta, the surrounding of Wadi Abu Qmha, Shanouh and Bastara.

The Lebanese resistance strongly retaliated and bombarded positions in the Shebaa farms in the attack launched on Thursday at three Israeli positions in the occupied Shebaa farms.

The sources said that an Israeli helicopter landed at one of the Israeli positions for some times and took off towards the Palestinian territories.

The sources indicated that one of the Israeli military vehicles was directly hit and the Lebanese national resistance radio said that three Israeli soldiers were wounded in an attack for the Lebanese resistance and one tank was damaged.

The Lebanese national resistance men also attacked the Israeli positions in Rweisat al-Alam, al-Sammaqa, al-Ramtha by heavy machine guns and direct hits were achieved.

On the other hand, the Israeli occupation forces on Friday released the Lebanese detainees Mahmoud Hamad Hamoud after he was detained for 8 years in the Israeli jails.

The detainee who is ( 39 ) year old from Yarin village was handed over to the ICRC at the Lebanese- Palestinian border in al-Naqoura.

The chairman of the ICRC mission said in a press statement it was presumed that Israel would have released the detainee three months before.

Worthy mentioning that Israel still holds more than 20 Lebanese in its jails including al-Haj Abdul Karim Obeid and Sheikh Mustafa al-Deirani who were kidnapped from their houses during the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon.

An Israeli military spokesman admitted that two Israeli soldiers were wounded and one is in a critical condition as a result of the attack of the Lebanese national resistance to the Shebaa farms positions.

The spokesman said that the two soldiers were wounded following the launching of anti tanks shells and mortar bombs by the Lebanese national resistance while the Israeli radio admitted that four Israeli soldiers were wounded in this attack.

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