KFAR SHOUBA, Lebanon, 18 January 2005 — Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance fighters bombed an Israeli bulldozer in a border zone yesterday drawing Israeli retaliatory airstrikes and artillery fire that security sources said wounded two women.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television station said the attack on the vehicle caused casualties and that an Israeli ambulance rushed to the scene. Israeli military sources said a unit came under rocket attack but that there were no casualties.
Israeli forces said the Israeli Air Force struck three suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon after the attack. Witnesses in Kfar Shouba, a village close to the Shebaa Farms disputed zone on the border, said Israeli forces retaliated with shells and machine-gun fire. Lebanese security sources said two civilian women were wounded.
