{"id":110,"date":"2005-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","slug":"clashes-erupt-on-lebanon-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/clashes-erupt-on-lebanon-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes erupt on Lebanon border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"><BR><\/SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #4900d2; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">Libanon-BBC<\/SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"><BR>The UN said a French officer on patrol was killed by the shelling near the disputed Shebaa Farms area. A Swedish UN officer and a Lebanese man were reported wounded in the incident. <BR><BR><\/SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">The attack came after an Israeli officer died and three soldiers were hurt when Hezbollah militants hit an army vehicle. One militant also died. A spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force, called Unifil, said the French officer was &#8220;killed by shelling from the Israeli side of the Blue Line&#8221;.<\/span> <BR><BR><\/p>\n<p> <img src=http:\/\/www.ado-world.com\/en\/images\/news\/2005\/Libanon-kaart.gif width=\"203\" height=\"152\" align=right><br \/>\n<SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">&#8220;Unifil has opened an investigation into the tragic incident,&#8221; he said. <BR>He said the officer was working for the UN Observation Group Lebanon, an agency that has monitored the Israel\/Lebanon border since the two sides signed an armistice in 1948. <BR><BR>&#8220;Two fighter bombers fired two missiles at a hill opposite the Shebaa Farms, in the Khiam region,&#8221; Lebanese police said, cited by AFP. <BR>Shebaa Farms has often seen clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah seeking to bring the territory under Lebanese control. <BR><BR>It is an area of the <\/SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">Golan Heights<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"> region, captured from <\/SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">Syria<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"> in 1967 and annexed by <\/SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">Israel<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">. <\/SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">Israel<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"> is thought to have fired some 15 artillery shells near the Lebanese <\/SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">village<\/SPAN><\/st1:PlaceType><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"> of <\/SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">Kfar Chouba<\/SPAN><\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">. <BR><BR><B>Explosive charge<\/B> <BR>Hezbollah said in a statement its attack on the Israeli vehicle &#8220;was within the framework of our efforts to liberate the remainder of Lebanese lands under occupation in the Shebaa Farms area&#8221;. <\/SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">It named its dead fighter as Ahmed Ibrahim Salameh, 30. <BR>The Israeli military confirmed that one of its soldiers had been killed in the Hezbollah attack. <BR><BR>A spokesman said: &#8220;The officer, a lieutenant and second in command of an infantry unit with the Golani regiment, was killed when Hezbollah detonated an explosive charge as he headed to a military position in the area.&#8221; <BR><BR>The Israeli army is investigating the circumstances of the death of the French officer. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"><o:p>?<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=left><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: black\"><br \/>\n11-1-2005 <\/SPAN><BR><br \/>\n<SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #4900dc; FONT-FAMILY: 'Estrangelo Edessa'\">&#1826;&#1815;&#1834;&#1821;&#1808; <\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libanon-BBCThe UN said a French officer on patrol was killed by the shelling near the disputed Shebaa Farms area. A Swedish UN officer and a Lebanese man were reported wounded in the incident. The attack came after an Israeli officer died and three soldiers were hurt when Hezbollah militants hit an army vehicle. 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