Lebanese resistance escalates resistance

Two members of the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army militia were killed and several others wounded in a bomb explosion targeted at one of their foot patrols on the Jezzine road.

Lebanese resistance sources said on Tuesday that a Lebanese resistance group planted an explosive device on the Jezzine road. The Lebanese resistance sources added that members of the militia patrol were killed or wounded.

Later news reports from south Lebanon said the pro-Israeli militia-member, Maneh Touma, commander of contingent 30 in the militia, who was appointed as successor to Joseph Karam who was killed with his driver in an explosion detonated by the Lebanese resistance on the Dahr al-Ramleh Jezzine road. The incident took place at 3 p.m. on Tuesday.

Further reports from south Lebanon said the Lebanese resistance declared responsibility for the death of the new militia leader in Jezzine, Major Maneh Touma. In a statement on Tuesday, the Lebanese resistance said a few days after attacking the SLA leader in Jezzine, Joseph Karam, a group of Lebanese resistance fighters attacked the pro-Israeli militia's leadership, and Touma and his driver were killed in the same place where Karam had been wounded.

Further news reports from south Lebanon said that Lebanese security sources said two Israeli warplanes raided the area northeast of Jezzine and fired two missiles. Black columns were seen rising from the area, and the explosion was heard from Sidon.

The Israeli jets also raided eastern Sidon in occupied south Lebanon. Lebanese army and resistance anti-craft fire intercepted the Israeli warplanes, which dropped scores of thermal balloons.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces applied strict security measures to the occupied strip of the western sector in south Lebanon after an Israeli sergeant was killed and another wounded in an attack launched by the Lebanese national resistance near the Lebanese border town of al-Naqoura.