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Israeli artillery shells south Lebanon

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Israel has violated the "April Understanding" agreement which ban targeting military acts against civilians and residential areas.

Lebanese security sources reported that Israeli artillery positions shelled on Monday the town of Nabatiyeh. Homes in Akil Khalof and Ja'jar Tafili were damaged, and further reports said that al-Tuffah district, al-Litani riverbed, Nab' al-Faseh, Jabal al-Rafee and al-Salouki valley were bombarded.

Throughout Sunday night, Israeli warplanes flew over the Western Bekaa in south Lebanon. News reports from the South said Israeli gunboats patrolled southern coasts and imposed a sea blockade on fishermen, banning them from fishing in Southern Tyre.

Meanwhile, Israeli troops released Lebanese prisoner Abdul Karim Muhammad Ali from a jail inside the occupied Palestinian lands. The Red Cross International Committee moved Abdul Karim to south Lebanon. Abdul Karim was arrested in 1982 in a Lebanese national resistance operation.

Earlier Sunday, Israeli troops fired a number of rockets at Hadatha town forests from their positions in Shkeif a-Namel.

Lebanese security sources reported that Israeli artillery bombarded al-Qatrani mountain areas in Western Bekaa, where the towns of Qilbya and Dulafa were shelled from Israeli positions in Lokaba.

An Israeli tank in the central sector fired heavy shells at valleys adjacent to the towns of Kokaba and Hola inside the occupied strip of south Lebanon.

Further reports said: The Lebanese National resistance announced the death of resistance man Muhammad Munif Kashmar Abdul Aziz.

A statement by the resistance said that Kashmar died during a confrontation with Israeli occupation forces on Friday.

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