The “first major cross-border conflict in five months” (as the AP calls it) in detail by Arieh O’Sullivan of the Jerusalem Post:
The attack began with a massive barrage directed against IDF posts on Mount Dov in the afternoon. It quickly spread westward. Shortly after the initial barrage, IDF troops prevented an attempt to infiltrate an outpost on Mount Dov, killing at least one gunman. An officer and soldier were seriously wounded in this apparently botched kidnapping attempt. An unspecified number of soldiers were also lightly wounded in the gun battle. The wounded were evacuated to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital.
In nearby Rajar, a village of Alawite Muslims located in Israel, Hizbullah gunmen rode in on motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), Army Radio reported. They opened fire on a building housing the local council. IDF forces intercepted the gunmen and returned fire, killing three.
As gun battles continued around Rajar, the mortar barrages moved westward, targeting Metulla and Kibbutzim Ma’ayan Baruch and Snir.
Hizbullah later extended the fighting across the entire northern border, as mortars landed near the western towns of Nahariya and Shlomi.
As a result of the shelling, residents of the north from the Mediterranean to Mount Hermon were ordered into bomb shelters Monday evening for the first time in years.
A house in Metulla was directly hit by a Katyusha. While family members were in the house at the time, no injuries were reported. Extensive damage was caused to the building.
IDF artillery returned fire alongside IAF air strikes from helicopters. IAF aircraft bombed a number of roads as well as a building used by Hizbullah as a headquarters in southern Lebanon. According to Lebanese security officials in south Lebanon, Israeli warplanes also fired missiles at suspected terrorist hideouts about 500 meters from the Lebanese-Israeli border.
And yet, the AP tries to make it seem like this was a tit-for-tat exchange of fire. No, it was a major invasion and kidnapping attempt that was repulsed by the IDF (and may I say, hurrah for the IDF!), resulting in at least four dead terrorists.
Notice, too, that the terrorists weren’t particularly caring that they also invaded a Muslim town and fired on their co-religionists. But we’ve already noticed that.
Good work the IDF.
They shot up an Alawite community, eh? They are a separate Shi’a sect from the Twelvers of Iran. I wonder if Iran’s lapdogs in Lebanon, Hizbullah, decided to shoot them up as being apostates? Or maybe they regard them as collabos for living peacefully in Israel. Muslims should realize by now that they are liable to be targets of the jihadis almost as much as the rest of us, for whatever deranged reasons seem good to the jihadi lunatics. Look at Darfur, Iraq, and Jordan.
Lebanese should realize that one of the duties of sovereignty is to keep stuff like this from happening. You are not supposed to let people make war on a neighboring state from your territory unless you are willing to be at war with that state, and take the consequences. It is a violation of international law to do this, although that has been routinely violated so often over tha last fifty years by Commies as well as Arabs that the principle may be getting a little frayed by now. Still, if the Lebanese want to be sovereign in their territory they should disarm Hizbullah. If they don’t want to exert sovereignty over South Lebanon, as they refused to do when it was Fatahland, they will have to take the consequences. No doubt all the brave champions of international law will scream bloody murder if they don’t and Israel takes steps to strike Hizbullah. They always do. For some reason armed Jews defending themselves makes an awful lot of people nervous, even hysterical.