Libanese soldaten gedood in strijd met Israël

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:14 schreef gde3 het volgende:
Volgens een Libanese legerwoordvoerder ontstonden de gevechten, toen Israëlische militairen een boom probeerden te rooien aan de Libanese kant van de grens en begonnen te schieten.

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Gepubliceerd: vandaag 15:04
Update: vandaag 15:20

Israël heeft Libanon dinsdag na het vuurgevecht gedreigd met ,,consequenties'' als er meer ongeregeldheden volgen aan de grens tussen beide landen.

Israël houdt de Libanese regering verantwoordelijk voor het schietincident tussen Libanese en Israëlische militairen, waarbij vier doden vielen aan Libanese zijde. Dat heeft het Israëlische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken in een verklaring naar buiten gebracht.

Israël noemt het schietincident ,,een flagrante schending van resolutie 1701 van de VN-Veiligheidsraad''. Volgens Jeruzalem ,,is de schending van vandaag de laatste in een lange serie schendingen van resolutie 1701, waaronder vooral de enorme herbewapening van Hezbollah''.

Staakt-het-vuren

Resolutie 1701 werd in 2006 aangenomen door de VN-Veiligheidsraad. Hierin werden Israël en Libanon opgeroepen tot een staakt-het-vuren. Vier jaar geleden woedde een oorlog tussen Israël en de Libanese beweging Hezbollah. In die oorlog kwamen circa 1300 mensen om, vooral Libanezen.

De Israëlische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Avigdor Lieberman, heeft dinsdag instructies aan de Israëlische vertegenwoordiging bij de VN gegeven om een klacht in te dienen over het vuurgevecht.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:20 schreef ShaoliN het volgende:
5 tot 6 doden vanwege een boom.

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Report: IAF Warplanes have struck an Lebanese army base.

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Libanon laakt 'Israëlische agressie'
BEIROET - De Libanese president Michel Suleiman en premier Saad al-Haariri hebben Israël dinsdag beschuldigd van agressie tegen „hun land”. Volgens Suleiman heeft Israël in strijd gehandeld met VN-resolutie 1701, die een einde maakte aan de oorlog in 2006 tussen Israël en de radicaalislamitische Hezbollah-beweging in het zuiden van Libanon.

Het kantoor van Suleiman stelde dat Israël de resolutie over een Israëlisch-Libanees staakt-het-vuren heeft geschonden, onder meer door het aanvallen van een Libanese controlepost. Hariri zei dat de de Verenigde Naties en de internationale gemeenschap hun verantwoordelijkheid moeten nemen en Israël moeten dwingen de agressie te beëindigen.

Door gevechten aan de Israëlisch-Libanese grens zijn dinsdag volgens veiligheidsfunctionarisen in Libanon drie Libanese militairen en een Libanese journalist gedood. Verder zouden er enkele Libanese en Israëlische militairen gewond zijn geraakt.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:57 schreef WammesWaggel het volgende:

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Misschien was het wel een hele zachte, knuffelbare boom

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:36 schreef Nemephis het volgende:
Israel die iets zegt over VN-resoluties negeren.. .da's een grap zeker?

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ff een overzicht over wat er vandaag is gebeurt

quote:Lebanese president: Stand up to Israel
Michel Suleiman vows to stand up to Israel 'at any price,' says Israel violated UN resolution

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has vowed to "stand up to Israel's violation of Resolution 1701, whatever the price" following the border flare-up between the Lebanese and Israeli armies Tuesday.
Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and four were wounded after the IDF struck a post near the southern Lebanese border village of Adaisseh, witnesses and security sources said. An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a Lebanese army post near Adaisseh, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, a Lebanese security source said.

A Lebanese journalist was also killed in the skirmish, local sources said.
However, Israel's Foreign Ministry said it "holds the Lebanese government responsible for the serious incident and warns against repercussions should such violations continue."

"Israel views the attack on an IDF force that operated in coordination with UNIFIL in the border area in recent hours a blatant violation of Security Council Resolution 1701," the Foreign Ministry said in a mission.

Meanwhile, Israel's UN mission plans to file a complaint on the matter with the organization's chief and with the Security Council.
IDF, Hezbollah exchange threats
Israel marked four years to the Second Lebanon War last month as tensions grew on the northern border amid fears that Hezbollah may seek to prompt a regional flare-up.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague's plan to indict senior Hezbollah officials over the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has caused growing concern among local leaders this may prompt the Shiite group to respond with violence in order to undermine stability in the region.
About three weeks ago, the IDF published photos of Hezbollah's massive military buildup in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel. Aerial photos of an area village showed sites where, according to the army, Hezbollah had been accumulating various weapons.
Colonel Ronen Merli, commander of the Western Division on the northern border, said at the time that given Hezbollah's preparations, "an incident may take place today or in a year. I'm prepared for this to happen by surprise without being told about it."

"We're operating in various ways in order to thwart any incident, and if one does take place, we'll know how to handle it," he said.

Later, Hezbollah responded to Israel's charges, with a senior group figure warning that "the enemy's leadership should know that we too have a target bank."

"They know well that all their threats shall go down in the face of the surprises prepared by the resistance," he said.
quote:3 Lebanese soldiers, journalist killed in clash on Israel-Lebanon border
Quiet on northern front shatters as IDF and the Lebanese army exchange fire and Katyusha rocket reportedly strikes Upper Galilee.
Israel Defense Forces exchanged fire with the Lebanese army on Tuesday, killing three Lebanese soldiers and a Lebanese journalist, in what appeared to be the most serious military confrontation since Israel's month-long war with Hezbollah in 2006.

The Lebanese army confirmed that two of its troops had been killed when Israeli forces fired on a vehicle in which they were traveling, setting it on fire and wounding another.

In Lebanon, security sources said that Israeli shells fired at the southern Lebanese border village of Aadassi hit a house, wounding two - a soldier and a civilian.

Lebanese troops responded with artillery fire, Lebanese press reports said, while eyewitnesses said fire had broken out in two buildings in the village.

"It started when the Israelis wanted to cut a tree down inside Lebanon," one security source in Lebanon said. "The Lebanese army fired warning shots at them and they responded by shelling."

The Lebanese al-Nahar newspaper reported that a journalist from the al-Akhbar newspaper was killed during the clash.

A frame from television footage showing smoke from weapons fire on Israel's northern border, August 3, 2010.

Since the end of the Second Lebanon War, the IDF has conducted patrols up to the international border, which in some places is on the Lebanese side of the border fence. It is possible that Tuesday's incident was caused by one of the sides misidentifying the correct location of the border. In Lebanon, there was a report that Lebanese soldiers had demanded that Israeli troops leave the area before the exchange of fire took place.

Responding to the incident, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman authorized Israel's UN ambassador Gabriella Shalev to lodge an official complaint against Lebanon with the UN Security Council.

IDF troops deployed near Israel's northern border after clashes with Lebanese troops, August 3, 2010.

Photo by: Zahal Kaminiski

In a statement, the Israeli government blamed Lebanon for provoking the clash, saying it took a particularly grave view of the action as IDF soldiers had been working in complete coordination with UN peacekeepers.

"Israel sees this incident as a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, one of a long line of violations, first of which is the massive arming of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon," the statement read. "Israel views the government of Lebanon as responsible for this grave event and warns of possible consequences if these violations continue."

Also on Tuesday there were reports that a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Galilee - but police dispatched to the area could find no trace of an impact.

Residents living close to border reported hearing several loud explosions.

Aharon Valensi, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, told television news that residents of the area had been told to take cover in bomb shelters.

"We're ready," he said. "The IDF prepared us for situations like this and we just hope that it is only a localized incident."

Israeli military engineering units maintain a security fence along the border with southern Lebanon. The region has traditionally been a stronghold for Hezbollah but regular Lebanese troops returned to the area in 2006 following Israel's summer war with the Shi'a militant group.

A 12,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, is also deployed in the area.

Following news of the incident, UNIFIL issued a statement calling on both armies to show "maximum restraint" and prevent an escalation of hostilities.

Tuesday's clash follows rocket attacks on Monday on the southern city of Eilat and neighboring Aqaba in Jordan, in which a Jordanian citizen was killed and five others were injured.

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 16:08 schreef RemcoDelft het volgende:

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De grote vraga is... staat de boom nog?

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:19 schreef HSG-BOMBER het volgende:

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, toen Israëlische militairen een boom probeerden te rooien aan de Libanese kant van de grens

Wat is daar precies lastig vallen aan?

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:19 schreef RemcoDelft het volgende:

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Het is niet alsof de strekking van de berichten nu anders is dan 10 jaar geleden, waarom duiken de media hier zo bovenop?

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Op dinsdag 3 augustus 2010 15:14 schreef gde3 het volgende:


JERUZALEM (ANP) - Drie Libanese militairen zijn dinsdag gedood in een vuurgevecht met Israëlische troepen

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UNIFIL official: IDF did not enter Lebanon prior to border clash
Milos Strugar tells Army Radio that the UN force receives reports of provocations by Lebanon soldiers against IDF units on a daily basis.

Israel Defense Forces did not cross the border with Lebanon before the deadly clash between Israeli and Lebanese forces, a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) official told Army Radio on Wednesday, adding that the UN force had been dealing with complaints of Lebanese provocations on a daily basis.
An IDF reserve battalion commander was killed on Tuesday as Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, with Lebanon saying at least three of its soldiers and a journalist were killed in the resulting shelling.
The IDF stressed following the fatal exchange that its vegetation clearing works near the border had not only taken place within Israeli territory, but on Israel's side of the fence.
Milos Strugar, UNIFIL's senior political adviser said that the IDF had "informed UNIFIL that it was going to conduct maintenance works" on the border, adding that while the Israeli unit had been "on the northern side of the border fence," it was nonetheless "south of the international borderline."

However, the UNIFIL official added that the information he had was "preliminary," adding that he will look into the evidence "more thoroughly" later in the day.

"The situation became tense right away, with the Lebanon army also being there," Strugar said, adding that UNIFIL forces had tried "to calm the situation and allow the IDF to work."

Asserting the IDF's claim that it had informed the Lebanese side of the planned border works, Strugar said that UNIFIL had received a message from the IDF "regarding these works, and we had passed that on to the Lebanese army."

"We deal with complaints on provocations of Lebanese soldiers against IDF units on a daily basis," Strugar told Army Radio, adding incidents occur "almost every day, there's a lot of tension round the border, but what happened is the worst incident since 2006."

The incident began at about 8 A.M. Tuesday, when IDF Northern Command informed UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, that it planned to clear vegetation along the border fence that was disrupting its soldiers' line of sight - an operation the IDF termed "routine maintenance," of the type it performs regularly.

UNIFIL asked the IDF to delay the operation on the grounds that the force's commander was then in New York. But the IDF did not see this as valid grounds for delay, so at 10:30 A.M. the work began.

UNIFIL, as is the norm, had informed the Lebanese Army of the planned operation, and a Lebanese force was sent to observe from its side of the border. Some of the Lebanese troops began cursing the IDF soldiers and shouting at them to leave, but the Israelis did not respond.

A few minutes later, at about 12:10 P.M., the IDF battalion and company commanders - who were supervising the truck's work from a lookout post about 100 meters away - suddenly came under sniper fire from a house east of the Lebanese village of Adeisa. Harari, the battalion commander, was hit in the head and Capt. Ezra Lakiya, the company commander, in the chest. Lakiya is now being treated at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.

The IDF said such an ambush would probably have been prepared two or three hours in advance.

In response, the IDF soldiers and an IDF tank opened fire, and the Lebanese soldiers fled. An IDF artillery battery then targeted three nearby Lebanese Army outposts.


At that point, UNIFIL asked the IDF to cease its fire so the wounded could be evacuated, and at 1:20 P.M., the IDF complied.

At about 2 P.M., however, Lebanese soldiers fired four rocket-propelled grenades at an IDF tank. They missed their target, but the IDF responded: A helicopter fired several missiles at a Lebanese Army battalion headquarters deeper inside Lebanon.

Four Lebanese were killed in that attack - three soldiers and a journalist - and about 10 people were wounded. The air strike also destroyed several Lebanese Army vehicles and set some houses on fire.

A senior IDF officer said last night that intelligence information indicates the ambush was planned and carried out on the orders of a Lebanese company commander. The Lebanese Army's high command, he said,apparently did order the troops to create an incident to impress the various media outlets present, but told them only to fire in the air. The local commander then decided on his own initiative to escalate the incident by targeting the Israeli soldiers directly.

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Israël: Libanese officier begon grensgevecht

TEL AVIV - Israël houdt een Libanese officier verantwoordelijk voor het gevecht aan de grens met Israël, dat dinsdag aan vijf personen het leven kostte. Israëlische media meldden woensdag, dat de bewuste commandant Libanese scherpschutters opdroeg op de Israëlische militairen te schieten.

Het Israëlische leger zou Libanon vooraf geïnformeerd hebben dat het routinewerkzaamheden zou gaan verrichten aan de grens. Woensdag is een Israëlische legereenheid opnieuw naar de plek van de gevechten van dinsdag vertrokken en heeft de boom omgekapt, waar Israëlische militairen dinsdag mee waren begonnen, berichtte de Israëlische legerradio. Het leger heeft op die plek gepantserde voertuigen neergezet.

Libanon heeft gedreigd wraak te zullen nemen als er sprake is van een nieuwe provocatie van Israëlische zijde