Israelis Reportedly Fire Near Deportees
Israeli troops fired tank rounds Saturday near Palestinian deportees in southern Lebanon staging a sit-in to protest the resumption of Middle East peace talks.
The barrage from Israel’s self-declared “security zone” came a day after an Israeli soldier was killed by a roadside bomb.
The pro-Iranian Hezbollah (Party of God) said in a statement that its fighters set off a bomb as an Israeli patrol passed by in an area just inside the buffer zone.
Lebanese sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the army fired four tank rounds in the deportees’ vicinity. The Israeli army did not confirm the report.
The shells exploded 700 yards west of the 396 deportees, a spokesman for the deportees said. He said that the blasts caused panic among the deportees but that no one was hurt.
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