Three civilians wounded in Israeli shelling

Three Lebanese civilians were wounded in south Lebanon Sunday when Israeli troops and their militia allies opened fire on villages facing an Israeli-occupied enclave, security sources said.

Some 20 shells rained down on the village of Mashghara on the northern edge of the Israeli-occupied enclave. Two women and a four-year-old boy suffered shrapnel wounds when the shells crashed near their home

. They were being treated at a hospital in the village, the sources added

. It was the second time in a week that Israeli troops targeted the village of Mashghara. A Lebanese woman was wounded last week in similar shelling.

A cease-fire monitoring committee was scheduled to meet in south Lebanon next week to discuss a Lebanese complaint lodged against the Israeli attacks against civilian-populated areas.

Earlier in the day, Israeli warplanes raided guerrilla bases in the south, causing no casualties. The raiding jets fired a number of missiles in two sorties over the village of Aqmata in Iqlim al-Tuffah, which faces the Israeli-occupied zone.

The area is frequently used by Hezbollah guerrillas to launch attacks on Israeli troops in the region.