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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel Shells Hizbullah Post after Bomb Hits Border Patrol in Attack Claimed by ISIL
2014-03-15
[An Nahar] The Israeli army said it shelled a Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
position in southern Leb on Friday after an kaboom targeted an Israeli patrol on the border, as the Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
reportedly grabbed credit for the kaboom.

Agence La Belle France Presse quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that Israel shelled southern Leb after an kaboom on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

The Israeli army confirmed that report, saying that it had acted after a border patrol was attacked with explosives.

The Lebanese source said "10 Israeli rockets hit an uninhabited border area" and that "there were no casualties."

"In response to the bomb activated against IDF (Israeli army) soldiers, the IDF fired towards a Hizbullah terror infrastructure in southern Leb. A hit was confirmed," the Israeli army said in statement.

Earlier, the Israeli army radio said "artillery fired at southern Leb in retaliation for the kaboom of a concealed device targeting a patrol."

"The device went kaboom! near soldiers on the border in the Har Dov area," the statement added, using Israel's term for the occupied Shebaa Farms.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do...
Leb's state-run National News Agency said "a 107 mm rocket struck an Israeli army post on the al-Ramta Hill inside the occupied Shebaa Farms." It did not elaborate and it was not immediately clear if it was referring to the same attack on Israeli forces.

Media reports later said that the Qaeda-inspired ISIL grabbed credit for the kaboom on the Israeli patrol.
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