Anti-aircraft shells fired by Lebanese guerrillas killed one person in Israel on Sunday, raising prospects for tough retaliation for the first such death since Israeli forces quit Lebanon three years ago. âWe have no desire to open a new front, but we cannot agree to our people in the north being hurt,â Deputy Defence Minister Zeev Boim said after shrapnel from shells fired by the Hezbollah group hit a shopping centre in the border town of Shlomi. âA military response may be needed, not only as a direct response to this provocation but also as a reminder of the Israeli armyâs deterrent power, which they may have forgotten,â he said.
Later on Sunday, Hezbollah TV reported that Israeli warplanes raided the outskirts of a south Lebanon village. Local officials said a young man was killed and four other people were wounded in the attack that followed a surge of violence along the frontier on Friday. |