12 Civilians Wounded by Israeli Shelling

Twelve civilians, including eight members of one family, were wounded in nighttime Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, security sources said. Lebanon protested the targeting of civilians to a truce-monitoring committee that will meet Monday to look into the charge. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the main guerrilla group fighting Israel’s occupation of the region, said the hourlong shelling violated a U.S.-brokered cease-fire reached in April. Hezbollah did not say it would retaliate by launching Katyusha rockets on northern Israeli towns. Sources from the Israeli-backed Lebanese militia said Israel was retaliating for a guerrilla attack on a militia outpost.