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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rrufff who wrote (3232)	10/28/2003 11:28:34 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 22250

ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH TRADE FIRE ALONG BORDER October 28, 2003 UPI reports: "Hezbollah guerrillas Monday attacked Israeli border posts prompting an exchange of fire that lasted more than two hours and led to an Israeli warning to Lebanon and Syria to stop the violence. Israeli military spokesmen said the Hezbollah attack began at 3:20 p.m. when Syrian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas fired anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs at two Israeli fortified positions in the northern Golan Heights. The positions, Hadas and Gladiola, are atop hills the Israelis call Mount Dov and the Arabs the Shabaa Farms. Hezbollah claims that area for Lebanon, but the United Nations that drew the borderline in 2000, accepted Israel's claim that it captured that area from Syria. Israel says the area's future must be negotiated with Syria. As fighting continued the guerrillas fired also at Israel's Outpost Tulip, near the village of Ghajar, reportedly damaging houses there. Ghajar spans the border with Lebanon. Its residents have Israeli citizenship and say they are originally Syrian. The Israelis responded with artillery strikes on Hezbollah targets and 'the sources of fire,' the army spokesman said. Later helicopter gunships were sent into action, a military source in the Northern Command told United Press International. The Ha'aretz newspaper quoted Hezbollah as saying the attacks marked the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan. Sunday Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Military Chief of General Staff Lieutenant Gen. Moshe Yaalon told the cabinet Hezbollah was planning attacks. Mofaz reported 'tense quiet' on the Lebanese border. He reportedly told the ministers he expected a Hezbollah attack to retaliate for Israel's Oct. 5 air strike on a training camp at Ein Saheb, some 10 miles northwest of Damascus. Israel said the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command of Ahmad Jibril ran that camp also known as Camp September 17. (The attack there was launched one day after a female Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up in a Haifa restaurant killing 21 people and wounding 60.)…" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------