January Tuesday 18-2000:

One collaborator killed, others wounded in a series of IR attacks…(1)
The Islamic Resistance (IR) at 6:30 a.m. Monday staged a series of attacks on the outposts of the occupation's militia's 80th Regiment.

Squad of Martyrs Jaafar Abbas Zwawi and Abbas Nahim Jahjah attacked the Baraasheit outpost and Squad of Martyrs Nidal Dirani and Hussein Hamdan attacked the Rshaf outpost.

In the meantime, Squad of Martyrs Hussein Qataya and Khalil Bazzi staged a similar attack on the Haddatha outpost, while Squad of Martyrs Ridwan Farhat and Hussein Termos targeted the Hmayyed outpost.

IR men used machine guns and rocket propelled grenades in their attacks scoring accurate direct hits in the targeted outposts.

Moreover, IR's squad of Martyrs Mohammad Hassan Alaeddeen and Hussein Wehbi at 7:10 a.m. staged a concentrated fiery attack on the enemy's outpost in Sojod from close distances scoring definite hits. Smoke billowed from the outpost.

Five minutes later, at 7:15, as a Lahdi patrol was crossing the Houla road, Squad of Martyrs Moussa Ahmed Qarout and Ridwan Dogha detonated a powerful bomb against the patrol killing or wounding its members. One of the collaborators was seen falling dead; nobody dared to come to his rescue for over an hour.

The radio of the occupation's proxy militia acknowledged that one of its militiamen was killed in IR's bomb that targeted the patrol in Houla.

Furthermore, the IR men spotted, at 14:30, a Lahdi engineering force as it fortifying Hmayyed position. Then, the IR team of martyrs Mohsen Abdel-Karim Noureddine and Ismail Abdel-Amir Hamzeh attacked it with the adequate arms scoring direct hits.

For its part, a squad of the Lebanese Resistance Brigades (LRB) at 6:45 a.m. Monday blitzed the "Israeli" occupation's outpost in Soweida with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades.

The outpost's fortifications and garrison were directly hit.

In the meantime, another LRB attacked the occupation's outpost in Dabsheh to bar it form backing the targeted Soweida outpost.

Direct hits were scored in the outpost's fortifications and garrison.

"Israeli" aggressions target schoolchildren in Arab Salim…(2)
"Scores of schoolchildren in the southern town of Arab Salim Monday miraculously escaped death when "Israeli" rounds rained down on the Arab Salim-Habboush-Nabatieh road as the pupils' buses were on their way to schools in Nabatieh.

"The children had to return to their homes in Iqleem al-Toffah due to the tension that prevailed as a result of the "Israeli" aggressions.

"Moreover, there were no classes today in the Arab Salim school as "Israeli" rounds hit the school's vicinity.

"The enemy aggressions covered also the Sojod-Rihan Woods, the Oqmata Farmstead, the outskirts of Habboush, Arab Salim, Baraasheit, Jabal al-Zaatar, and the Zahrani River gorge causing crops' damage.

"The occupation's heavy machine guns also raked the residential areas in Jarjoua all last night".

In its statement, the IR mentioned the following "Israeli" aggressions (3):

00:50, the "Israeli" war jets raided into the perimeters of Ain Bousoir town.

00:37, the "Israeli" warplanes staged a sortie into Mount Safi.

6:45, the peripheries of Baraasheit town came under three 120mm shells and barrages of 12.7mm, Mag and Lancher machine gun bullets. Also, the surroundings of Baraasheit and Haddatha compounds exposed to the same kind barrages of machine gun bullets.

7:20, Mount Sojod was shelled by six 155mm missiles.

8:15, several 155mm missiles landed near the school of Arab Salim town.

8:40, four 155mm missiles struck Qaissieh Valley.

10:40, Houla village exposed to heavy machine gun fire.  
At 18:15 and 18:42, the "Israeli" warplanes raided into Oqmata plain.

LEBANESE MAN KILLED IN MINE BLAST IN KFAR HOUNA…(4)
"A Lebanese man was killed and another was lightly wounded when a landmine exploded late yesterday in an abandoned position of "Israel's" allied militia in Kfar Houna, on the edge of the zone "Israel" occupies. Security sources said Rabah al-Zein was instantly killed when the blast occurred. As the landmine went off, "Israeli" warplanes attacked the area by firing two rockets. "Israeli" shelling hampered efforts to retrieve the body of al-Zein by the International Committee of the Red Cross, until late at night. Earlier this week, "Israeli"-backed forces withdrew from Kfar Houna and four other villages, their biggest pullout from the area since June when they retreated from the Jezzine enclave".

Footnotes:

1-        IR statement, 17-1-2000.

2-        Al-Manar TV, 17-1-2000.

3-        IR statement, 17-1-2000.

4-        Future TV, 17-1-2000.