Tension between Israel-Hezbollah near Lebanon Border heats up after bomb attack

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Lebanese militia group Hezbollah attacked an Israeli armored vehicle with a roadside bomb along the border Monday and Israel responded with artillery fire.

Hezbollah said it set off a large explosive device as an armored patrol passed in the disputed Chebaa Farms area, destroying a Humvee and causing casualties among the soldiers inside.

The Israeli army said vehicles in the area were hit with an improvised explosive device and that it responded with targeted artillery fire. It did not say whether there were any casualties.

Lebanese security officials said more than 50 Israeli shells hit several villages in the area where the Hezbollah operation was carried out. Residents along the border said shelling from Israeli tanks and artillery landed in agricultural areas inside Lebanon, but did not report casualties.

An Israeli artillery gun fires a shell into Lebanon, after a roadside bomb exploded next to an Israeli military border patrol near the Shebaa Farms area on Monday, near Kiryat Shmona, Israel, January 4, 2016.  REUTERS/Ancho Gosh/Jinipix
An Israeli artillery gun fires a shell into Lebanon, after a roadside bomb exploded next to an Israeli military border patrol near the Shebaa Farms area on Monday, near Kiryat Shmona, Israel, January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Ancho Gosh/Jinipix

The officials said the patrol was hit near an Israeli army position in the Kfar Chouba hills that Lebanon says is Lebanese land occupied by Israel. The residents requested anonymity, saying they feared for their safety, while the officials did so in line with regulations. Neither group had any immediate word on casualties.

The Hezbollah unit that carried out the bombing was named after Samir Kuntar, a high-profile figure in the group who was killed last month in Syria in an attack blamed on Israel.

Hezbollah has vowed to avenge the killing of Kuntar, who was the longest serving Lebanese prisoner in Israel before he was released in 2008 in exchange for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in a cross-border raid two years earlier.

An Israeli artillery gun fires a shell into Lebanon, after a roadside bomb exploded next to an Israeli military border patrol near the Shebaa Farms area on Monday, near Kiryat Shmona, Israel, January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Ancho Gosh/Jinipix
An Israeli artillery gun fires a shell into Lebanon, after a roadside bomb exploded next to an Israeli military border patrol near the Shebaa Farms area on Monday, near Kiryat Shmona, Israel, January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Ancho Gosh/Jinipix

‘Danger of Miscalculation’
U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag expressed “concern” Monday after Hezbollah claimed the the bomb attack against an Israeli army vehicle in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Israel retaliated by shelling south Lebanon.

She highlighted “the danger of miscalculation which could lead to a deterioration of the situation on the ground,” Kaag’s office said in a statement.

Kaag urged all parties to “fulfill their obligations under (U.N. Security Council) resolution 1701, and to refrain from any acts or rhetoric which could undermine stability across the Blue Line,” the statement said.

In a statement, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack and said it “destroyed an Israeli armored vehicle and injured those in it.”

Associated Press/ Agencies

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73 responses to “Tension between Israel-Hezbollah near Lebanon Border heats up after bomb attack”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    The heroes of the fartsistance answered the treacherous assassination of their high-profile child killer terrorist and hind uncle Samir al Quntar by detonating firework in the shebaa farm that left the occupants of an Israeli soldiers patrol astonished by the sound.
    Live from Shebaa with Ariel Shlomo, IDF captain of the patrol: “We were driving when all of a sudden and in clear daylight several fetteish and dioukeh [bangs and crackers] were set on fire creating a lot of sound and a thick smoke. We looked at each other wondering if that was Hassan Nasrallah’s promise of a payback or leftover fireworks from the NY celebration. Finally, as no one in the patrol gave a shit either way, we drove off back to the casern not wanting to miss Monday night Shakshooka diner.”

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Mekhara replaced barabie khara talk.

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Mekhara Live from Shebaa with nephew Ariel Shlomo, IDF captain of the patrol: “We were driving when all of a sudden and in clear daylight several fetteish (fetish) and tedious [bangs and popcorn crackers] were set on fire creating a lot of sound and a thick smoke. We looked at each other wondering if that was Hassan Nasrallah’s promise of a payback or leftover fireworks from the NY celebration. Finally, as no one in the patrol gave a shit either way, we drove off back to the casern (caserne) not wanting to miss Monday night Shakshooka (Shakshuka) diner.

      uncle is obsessed with hind..

  2. Rudy1947 Avatar

    “The Hezbollah unit that carried out the bombing was named after Samir Kuntar,”

    Formally known as the Cünts.

  3. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    THE LEBANESE NATIONAL RESISTANCE HAD ALREADY DEMONSTRATED ABILITY TO PREVAIL ON THE BATTLEFIELD AGAINST ZIONIST ISRAEL GROUND FORCES, WITHSTANDING POTENTIAL DAYS OR WEEKS OR MONTHS OF CARPET BOMBING AND DURING HUGELY ASYMMETRIC WARS. RATHER, INCREASINGLY THE RESISTANCE’S SUCCESS AGAINST THE ZIONIST STATE IS BEING EXPLAINED BY ITS MORAL, POLITICAL, POPULAR, PSYCHOLOGICAL, CULTURE THAT WERE ENHANCED BY THE RESISTANCE ‘LEBANONIZATION’ AND GROWING ACCEPTANCE AND FULL SUPPORT BY THE NASSERITE ORGANIZATION HEADQUARTERED IN SIDON, WHILE BEING DUBBED BY SOME AT THE PENTAGON AS NOW ‘THE 8th GREATEST MISSILE POWER IN THE WORLD.’

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      Any Lebanese resistance has already been destroyed by the Hizzbillies.

      1. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        Let him talk…
        They’ve been giving themselves moral through non-factual poetry for 70 years of defeat now

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          You’re celebrating the ’70’ years Zionists introduced Sacred terrorism in the Holly Hole?

          1. Rudy1947 Avatar

            70 years and counting. Mazel tov.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Who’s talking to you Slovaky

          3. Rudy1947 Avatar

            Who’s Slovaky?

          4. master09 Avatar

            It’s the other voices in the head, all 39 of them.

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ‘Czech Republic and Slovakia’..

          6. Rudy1947 Avatar

            Now I’m a country?? Can I pick my own flag?

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Rudy1947 does not belong to any Nations, yet..
            American Atheist defending Israel.
            So you’re a non Jew Atheist?

          8. Rudy1947 Avatar

            I belong to the USA, the rest of statement is correct.

          9. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            West Slavic closely related to Polish..you picked the Israeli flag

          10. Rudy1947 Avatar

            Are you going to bore me Polish jokes that I heard in the 50’s.

          11. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ??..don’t know Polish jokes..you like Chopin?

          12. Rudy1947 Avatar

            I like Eric Clapton.

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            PS.. not healthy to relegate one’s roots tho the basket.

          14. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Have a nice evening 🙂
            PS.. not healthy to relegate one’s roots tho the basket.

          15. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You said I’m not Jewish and i’m atheist. Mazel totov.

          16. Rudy1947 Avatar

            Don’t seem to remember saying you were Jewish or an Atheist.

          17. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You said You were not….

          18. Rudy1947 Avatar

            Reread your statement above and edit.

          19. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Never mind ..i think it was that Rascal and you who claimed not being Jewish.Mazel totov

  4. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    THERE IS ALSO THE FACTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT THAT IS EMBRACING THE RESISTANCE. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT TO YIELD TO THE DICTATES OF THE LAWLESS, TERRORIST, ZIONIST STATE, THE US, LEBANESE TURNCOAT TRAITORS OF THE 1970’S THROUGH 1990, THE COTERIE CLAN OF TREASON EMBODIED THEN IN THE PHALANGE AND THEIR ASSOCIATES IN TREACHERY AND BETRAYAL OF LEBANON.

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      Speaking of the environment, how’s the Lebanese dealing with their recycling.

      1. Hannibal Avatar

        I heard the current runs south in the mediterranean… They will dump all garbage in the sea. 😛

        1. Rudy1947 Avatar

          Off the coast of Lebanon it runs north.

          1. Hannibal Avatar

            Poor Turks…

  5. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    THE RESISTANCE HAS SMASHED THE MYTH OF ISRAEL’S INVINCIBILITY, BROKEN THE BARRIER OF FEAR, INCREASED THE POPULAR DEMAND FOR RESISTANCE, EXPOSED THE FAKE PEACE PROCESS AND REJECTED APPEASEMENT, ACQUIESCENCE AND SURRENDER. THE RESISTANCE FORCES TAUGHT THE WORLD THAT THE ARABS CAN AND WILL LIBERATE PALESTINE BECAUSE THEY POSSESS THE QUALITIES AND ACUMEN TO DO IT. THE 2006 SUMMER ASYMMETRIC WAR REPRESENTED ONE GREAT ARAB ACHIEVEMENT BY THE RESISTANCE FORCES. THEY SHOWED THAT THEY ARE NOT FOSSILS, THEY ARE NOT DOOMED TO OSSIFY AS THE MODERN WORLD PASSES THEM BY. IT SHOWED THAT THE RESISTANCE FORCES CAN DEVELOP, THEY CAN ACQUIRE THE EDUCATION AND CULTURE NEEDED TO HANDLE MODERN TECHNOLOGY, AND THAT THEY CAN FORGE THE SOCIAL COHERENCE TO GO TO WAR AND BLEED THE ZIONIST ENEMY.

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      It’s a shame they (PaliArabs) haven’t gained the desire to progress socially, economically and in the technology of the future.

    2. johngilbert Avatar
      johngilbert

      All regular armies are fossils if they do not eventually rely on ground war and tactics for the final outcome. An air war that is not fought against another air force is useless and so is the same about tanks that do not battle tanks too which are sitting ducks with today’s anti-tank weapons.

    3. Militarily speaking, the IDF got spanked by HA in 2006. It did in fact win the battles, but the fact that it lost so many men and was so unprepared (and advanced unnecessarily, as you stated) left it on the losing side, so to speak. The UK military commander of Iraq forces disagrees, saying that, despite the ambush, IDF reached its objectives (thanks to uncontested air superiorty and massive artillery).
      But in the eyes of HA, they won.
      However, as Hamas and HA have admitted, the IDF did a thorough re assessment and now have a war plan for the next time around (G d forbid).
      War would only bring massive destruction and stalemate to both sides. anyone who starts a war is insane.

      1. Mutih Skeini Avatar
        Mutih Skeini

        “The Zionist sectarian state in occupied Palestine has come to exist as a result of terror and war, and will one day cease to exist as a result of war.”-Bertrand Russell
        “What has been taken by force cannot but be retaken by force. No peace with Zionist Israel, no negotiations with Zionist Israel, and no recognition of Zionist Israel.”-President Gamal Abdel Nasser
        “Israel is a beachhead for the West. The Zionist state is sectarian, which makes second-class citizens of all non conformists.”-Anthony Nutting, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

        1. Bertrand Russell? please. The words of a dying philosopher who was only brave enough to make a statement on his deathbed.
          Nasser? The guy who lost two huge wars with Israel but is still lionized by Arabs? Figures you would quote a guy who drove Egypt from misery to misery.
          Nutting? Never heard of him. Broken Britain has/had its own problems.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Why would a Zionist learn history?

            “Worse than this, the Government deliberately set out to deceive the Arab majority in Palestine as to their real intentions with promises and guarantees that they had ‘nothing to be frightened about'[1]and that Britain would ‘never consent’ to a Jewish Government being set up to rule their land.[2]”

            Sir Anthony Nutting.

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Taqqiya is everywhere …

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I know who’s “Extinct”.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            We don’t need Monsanto on top.. the industrialization of animal meat is monstrous.

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ” a dying philosopher who was only brave enough to make a statement on his deathbed”?
            This is the brainwashed zionists.

            -Russell-Einstein Peace Manifesto. Offered to the world in 1955 in the icy winds of Cold War One, two of the greatest humanists and scientific minds of the twentieth century, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955), proposed a stark question to humankind. “Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?”

            http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/21/the-russell-einstein-peace-manifesto-of-1955/

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            It’s a struggle, even to reflect on the words of a deathbed confession, isn’t it? 😉

          7. You are wasting your time talking to Mutih.
            There is no logic or reason, the mullah is strong in this one.

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You’re logic itself.

  6. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    THIS WRITER IS NEITHER A MEMBER NOR PRIVY TO ANY SECURITY INFORMATION RELATING TO THE RESISTANCE, AND IT WOULD BE TREASONOUS AND UNTHINKABLE FOR ANYONE IN THE RESISTANCE TO SHARE ANY, SO SECURITY IS ULTRA TIGHT. IT IS THESE KINDS OF SKILLS THAT THE RESISTANCE FIGHTERS USED TO FORCE REPEATED ERRORS BY THE ZIONIST ENEMY FORCES DURING THE JULY 2006 ASYMMETRIC WAR, AND ALTHOUGH NOT WIDELY REPORTED, DURING ITS 18 YEARS OF OCCUPATION OF LEBANON (1982-2000); ERRORS THAT THE ISRAELI WINOGRAD COMMISSION CALLED “THE WORST KIND OF MISTAKES AND FAILURES OF THE GROUND FORCES.”

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      A disclaimer……do you actually think your comments are worthy of such status?

    2. johngilbert Avatar
      johngilbert

      Didn’t the Druse on Mt. Lebanon repulse Hezbollah and stop Hezbollah in 2008 to save Lebanon while The LAF did nothing to save the Lebanese government except to disarm the opponents of Hezbollah?. Neither are the regular armies of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, etc. better than Hezbollah since they have needed Hezbollah help.badly more than ever before. In the past, regular armies were able to sacrifice thousands of its soldiers in order to get the job done as part of the battle in order to win. Today, very few armies are willing to do it and they start to fall apart at the loss of just a few soldiers because they are relying too much on every modern (air) gadget to avoid any real ground war which is still how a battle and war is still won.

  7. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    AMONG THE EXAMPLES STILL DISCUSSED IN DAHIYEH, AND PRESUMABLY TEL AVIV AND WASHINGTON, INCLUDE THE RESISTANCE FORCES ROUTING OF THE ISRAELI “ELITE” GOLANI, EGOZ AND MAGLAND BRIGADES AT MARON AL RAS ON THE LEBANESE-PALESTINE BORDER BETWEEN JULY 25 AND 30, 2006. ANOTHER WAS THE BATTLE OF BINT JBEIL WHICH DAN HALUTZ CALLED ISRAEL’S PLANNED “WEB OF STEEL” WHICH WAS EXPECTED TO TAKE LESS THAN 48 HOURS TO DEFEAT THE RESISTANCE FORCES STARTING ON JULY 24th.

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      It’s 2016, try and catch up.

    2. think_gold Avatar
      think_gold

      I am glad 2006 went so well for you. Your victory was great for us as well. I am sure 2016 will go even better and you will likewise end up the major victor, as your brothers in Hamas also continue to win in all skirmishes. I wish you both many such victories.

  8. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    BUT BY JULY 30, THE MUCH BATTERED GOLANI FORCES OF THE ZIONIST ENEMY WITHDREW AND THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE RENEWED INDISCRIMINATE AERIAL BOMBARDMENT. DOWN THE ROAD FROM BINT JBEIL, AT AITA AL-SHAAB, ISRAEL LOST 126 SOLDIERS AND MORE THAN 225 SEVERELY INJURED WITHOUT GAINING AN INCH OF TERRITORY. SHORTLY BEFORE ISRAEL AGREED TO A CEASEFIRE, ITS FORCES EXPERIENCED THE CATASTROPHE AT WADI SLOUQI, A RAVINE THROUGH WHICH TWO COLUMNS OF ISRAELI TANKS WERE SENT TO LINK UP WITH AIRLIFTED TROOPS AT GHANDOURIYAH VILLAGE. THE ISRAELI PLAN, READ BY THE ACUMEN OF THE RESISTANCE COMMAND FROM THE ONSET, WAS TO MOVE TOWARD TYRE AND HEAD NORTH. “THEY [RESISTANCE FORCES] JUMPED UP OUT OF THE GROUND ALL AROUND US” ONE ISRAELI AT THE SCENE TESTIFIED LATER. THE RESISTANCE FORCES HIT 18 TANKS, QUICKLY KILLING 175 ISRAELI AND WOUNDING MORE THAN 180. IT BECAME KNOWN IN ISRAEL MILITARY CIRCLES AS “THE BLACK SABBATH, THE GODDAMNED SABBATH”, AS ONE ISRAELI WAR ROOM OFFICER COMMENTED.

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      Who has control of the Golan now?

  9. Mutih Skeini Avatar
    Mutih Skeini

    (VII) INCREASINGLY DURING THE 33 DAY ULY 2006 WAR, ISRAELI FORCES REFUSED ORDERS TO ADVANCE AGAINST THE LEBANESE RESISTANCE FIGHTERS, HAPPILY OPTING FOR 14 DAY JAIL SENTENCES FOR FAILING TO OBEY ORDERS. CONCERNING IDF RECRUITMENT AND AWOL PROBLEMS, ACCORDING TO IDF CAPTAIN ARYE SHALICAR OF THE IDF RECRUITMENT FRAUD UNIT, IT IS US TAXPAYERS WHO FOOT THE BILL FOR EIGHT COMPANIES OF PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS RECENTLY HIRED TO TRACK DOWN ISRAELI DRAFT DODGERS. IT IS IN THIS CONTEXT THAT WASHINGTON IS USING THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL OF LEBANON AS A 6th WAR AGAINST LEBANON, FOLLOWING THOSE 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, AND 2006. IT IS REPORTED BY HAARETZ ON 11/16/2010 THAT ISRAELI FM LIEBERMAN REVEAL ISRAEL HAS BEEN HELPING THE STL WITH ITS “INVESTIGATION.”

    1. Rudy1947 Avatar

      zzzzzzz

    2. I know someone who tracks Marine deserters in the US full time. And they are all volunteers.
      What is your point?

  10. Rudy1947 Avatar

    Hey Mutih, the Arabs lost.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      By deceit and betrayal of 4 Great Powers.

      British member of Government:
      “(..)in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country. The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism.”

      1. Rudy1947 Avatar

        Israel’s intentions were always quite clear…….survive and then maintain a nation. Those who interfered with violence were dealt with.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Taking other peoples land is interfering. Taking other peoples land by force is violence.

          1. Rudy1947 Avatar

            LOL.

          2. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            Wow sweetie… are you sitting on stolen Indian land in Montreal? You do know that the British and French obtained it by “force and violence”…. how does it feel to be proven a hypocrite for the 514’th time??? ☻☻

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ☻☻

          4. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            Sweetie, is that your answer???…. typical hypocrite.

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Zw☻☻die

          6. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            well sweetie, are you going to explain your duplicity???

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Look at the thief..posting with my avatar and his stolen “Malmequer” discus.

          8. MaImequer0 Avatar
            MaImequer0

            Been to see Dr. Maher recently sweetie??? ☻☻☻

          9. Hasbara trolls are know to do this: steal the avatar, username or both. There is one on TDS by the name of “ALI” who does that too. They also happen to run multiple accounts.

        2. Any monopoly eventually destroys itself.

  11. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Assume there’s no ‘Blue Line’ those on either side will not cross.
    Might just as well Give the ‘Peacekeepers some ‘Shore Leave’ in Cyprus … and watch from space.

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