Lebanese resistance downs an Israeli spying plane, Israeli land, sea, air aggressions against south Lebanon

Israel on Wednesday violated once again the Lebanese airspace and sovereignty. Its warplanes raised south Lebanon areas and the raids coincided with intensive and violent bombardment of these areas.

Meantime the Lebanese national resistance announced it retaliated these aggressions and its anti- warplane missiles hit a spying plane.

On Wednesday evening the Israeli warplanes raided the hills of Kafer Shouba and the surrounding areas of Shebaa farms and the Israeli planes continued its provocative sorties in the Lebanese airspace.

In a statement, the Lebanese national resistance said that these raids coincided with violent artillery bombardment which targeted the Shebaa farms - Kafer Shouba road and the outskirts of Shebaa, Kafer Hammam and Bastara and Helta farms.

The statement said that the Lebanese resistance fired more than 50 shells at the Israeli positions in Zibdin, al-Ramtha, Rweisat al-Alam, al-Sammaqa and the occupied Shebaa farms area.

The Lebanese resistance artillery also with the anti-warplanes means opened their fire at the Israeli planes and hit one AMK spying plane which violated the Lebanese airspace at the central sector.

In another statement, the Lebanese resistance said that Israel has violated the Lebanese sovereignty 42 times during the period between January 15 and 21.

The statement explained that the Israeli planes violated the Lebanese territories during the said period of time for 23 times, while the Israeli gun boats violated the Lebanese territorial waters for 19 times.

The statement added that Israel violated the Lebanese sovereignty for 3671 times in 2001.