WORLD : Israeli Jets Retarget Hezbollah
Israeli jets rocketed guerrilla bases of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia today in their second raid in 22 hours on south Lebanon bases of the Shiite Muslim fundamentalist fighters.
One Hezbollah fighter was killed and 11 people--five combatants and six civilians--were wounded in the raid, a police spokesman said.
In two runs spaced over 10 minutes, four F-4 fighter-bombers rocketed the bases in the villages of Loweizeh and Melita--which are two miles north of Sunday’s targets.
It was Israel’s third raid on targets in Lebanon in four days and the 15th this year. Police said leaping flames and palls of black smoke hung over the targets in Iqlim el Tuffah, or the apple region, southeast of the port city of Sidon.
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