BEIRUT, May 28 (KUNA) -- The United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon succeeded in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah fighters, and calm appeared to have returned to the volatile southern areas by early evening Sunday. "UNIFIL has succeeded in obtaining a ceasefire which should take effect on the ground," Milos Strugel, spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), told reporters.
| Easy to do: Israelis made their point, and the Hezbollah boys got tired of being pounded by counter-battery fire. |
The Israeli artillery bombardment of southern Lebanese villages came to a halt in the early evening, a security source told KUNA.
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud in a statement praised the efforts made by UNIFIL, noting that Israel's continuous attacks on Lebanon were aimed at achieving striking stability and security in Lebanon. He called on the Lebanse political parties to be aware of the Israeli objectives.
Israel launched two air raids Sunday afternoon striking positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)-General Command in Sultan Yaqoub in the Beqqa valley and Naema in southern Beirut. A member of the front was killed and six others were injured in the raid. A PFLP official said the Israeli raids were of "political aims". The official denied that Katyuasha rockets were fired against Israel.
| "Wudn't us! Stop bombing us already!" |
The Lebanese Hezbollah party denounced the Israeli raids as "grave escalation" | Yeah, yeah, got whupped again, did ya? |
Israel also fired artillery shells on Hezbollah positions in south Lebanon killing one person, Hezbollah fighters returned fire striking the disputed frontier of Shebaa farms.
| And apparently didn't hit anything, not that it's a surprise. |
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the Katyusha rocket attack on northern Israel which it said in avengence of the Israqeli killing of one of its leaders on Friday. "Our fighters succeeded in hitting positions and barracks of the enemy at dawn on Sunday in revenge for the assassination by Israel of the martyr leader Mahmoud Majzoub," a statement by the Islamic Jihad broadcast here said.
| "Grrrrrrr!! We moidalized 'em!" |
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