Israeli artillery bombarded several south Lebanon villages

Israeli occupation forces on Friday continued its aggressions against areas in South Lebanon. The Israeli artillery positioned in al-Zaffatah on Friday morning bombarded several villages and the bombardment resulted in damaging a house in Zouter east town.

For its part, the Lebanese national resistance on Thursday launched a series of operations against the Israeli occupation forces and its hirelings in the occupied part of South Lebanon resulted in achieving direct hits in an armored vehicles for the hireling militias and in an Israeli engineering force position.

Meantime, the Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss noted Lebanon's follow up of the Israeli besiege of the towns of Bint Jbeil and Eita al-Jabal.

Al-Hoss noted that the Lebanese permanent representative at the UN ambassador Ahmad al-Tadmuri informed the UN chief Kofi Annan on the question of the besiege and hoped that it will be lifted very soon. Replying to a question on the European role in the Middle East peace process, al-Hoss said that the EU is ready to take its due role in this settlement.

Meantime, the Amnesty International has called on the Israeli prime Minister Ehud Barak and Antoine Lahd to immediately release detainees from occupied Eita al-Shaab town. The follow up committee in charge of backing the question of the Lebanese detainees in the Israeli Jails said in a statement that it had received an urgent call from the Amnesty International in this respect. The Amnesty International expressed its fears of that the occupation authorities torture the Lebanese detainees Ali Jalil Srour; Samih Srour; Hassan Mousa Rida, Muhammad Jamil and Muhammad Mousa Rida.