Israeli artillery shelled the Lebanese border village of Shebaa early today.
Twenty rounds from 155 millimetre guns struck Saddana hill and Jabbor lake, which face the Shebaa Farms area and the village of Ghajar, occupied by the Israeli army. There were no casualties.
As the shelling took place, an unmanned Israeli surveillance plane could be seen flying overhead, and motorised Israeli patrols circled Ghajar, where a lone gunman fired on an army post yesterday.
No one had claimed responsibility for the attack, in which no one was injured. Lebanese Shi’ite fundamentalist group Hezbollah, which has carried out attacks on Israeli targets in the area, denied involvement.
Located at the foot of the Golan Heights, Ghajar has been under Israeli occupation since the June 1967 Middle East war. Syrian Alawites, most of whom have obtained Israeli citizenship, live there.
A UN "blue line" drawn up to demarcate the Israeli-Lebanese border after Israel's May 2000 withdrawal from south Lebanon runs through the village, with two-thirds on the Lebanese side and the rest as part of the occupied Golan.
AFP