January Wednesday 26-2000:
Introduction
The Islamic Resistance (IR) scored yesterday a
qualitative victory when the mujahedeen staged a series of military operations
against a lot of enemy positions in the occupied zone. The IR successful attacks
resulted in killing one "Israeli" soldier, wounding three
collaborators and capturing two of them.
Meanwhile, the "Israeli" war jets raided
into the perimeters of Jibaa town dropping several bombs on the building located
100 meters from an army checkpoint. Two women who live in vicinity were injured
and moved to the hospital for treatment.
ISRAELI SOLDIER KILLED AND THREE MILITIAMEN INJURES IN
RESISTANCE ATTACKS
"An Israeli occupation soldier was killed in a hail of shells fired at an
Israeli position in southern Lebanon by the Hizbullah resistance movement. Three
Israeli allied militiamen were also injured in resistance attacks on occupation
outposts in the south.
"Fighting flared in southern Lebanon today
(yesterday). Hizbullah resistance fighters attacked the Israeli occupation post
of Radar with some sixteen shells, killing one Israeli soldier. It was the first
death of an Israeli soldier in occupied southern Lebanon this year and the first
since before peace talks resumed on December 15 between "Israel" and
Syria. Earlier, Israeli allied militia confirmed that three of its fighters were
wounded in a Hizbullah attack on its position of Baraasheit, in the central
sector of the occupied zone. It was confirmed by Hizbullah, which said it also
attacked the neighboring position of Haddatha, causing casualties. Hizbullah
said the commander of the Baraasheit post, Kamal Jaafar, was seriously wounded.
Yesterday, two militiamen were wounded during a resistance attack inside the
zone"…(1)
For its part, the IR announced that the team of
martyrs Mohammad Abbas Zahwi and Said Assaad Mossawi attacked, at 6:30, the
northern fortification of Baraasheit compound, whereas the IR squad of martyrs
Hani Mohammad Hijazi and Rashid Ali Moselmani targeted from close range its
eastern rampart with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
Meanwhile, the IR group of martyrs Hussein Youssef
Baz and Jihad Ali Sayyed rushed upon the same compound with the adequate weapons
scoring direct hits where the smoke columns were seen billowing out of it.
At the same time, the IR unit of martyrs Jaafar
Abdel-Hassan Alameh and Mohammad Abdel-Monhem Monhem fell upon Haddatha compound
with the rocket-propelled grenades. Direct and certain goals were chalked up,
the militants told.
In the meantime, the IR team of martyrs Hussein
Mohammad Mortada and Hassan Ibrahim Qassem rushed upon a Lahdi force as it was
trying to back up Haddatha compound. Using the machine guns and rocket-propelled
grenades, the militants were able to score direct hits.
Also, the IR squad of martyrs Ali Ibrahim Hassan and
Hassan Ahmad Saad attacked, at 11:50, the "Israeli" post of Radar with
the rocket-propelled grenades inflicting a number of casualties among its
members and destroying its main fortification, where the soldiers' screamings
were heard obviously.
At the same time, the IR group of martyrs Ali Hassan
El-Ammar and Ahmad Mohammad El-Boun rushed upon the same post with the
appropriate arms scoring direct goals, whereas the IR unit of martyrs Mahmoud
Khaled Al-Merhbi and Hussein Riad Ballout fell upon Bayada post with the
suitable weapons. The mujahedeen managed to chalk up direct hits.
In the meantime, the IR team of martyrs Hussein
Mustafa Al-Jouni and Hassan Kamel Al-Zein targeted Hardoun outpost with the
rocket-propelled grenades scoring definite hits.
In the meantime, the IR squad of martyrs Jamil Chahla
and Fadi Hemadeh rushed upon Qssair position with the rocket-propelled grenades.
Direct and certain goals were chalked up, the mujahedeen reported.
Moreover, the IR group of martyrs Jihad Shbib and
Issa Qtaish attacked, at 12:40, an "Israeli" force as it was
fortifying Taibeh position with the rocket-propelled grenades where the smoke
columns were seen billowing out of it.
For its part, a group of the Lebanese Resistance
Brigades (LRB) attacked, at 20:00, Haddatha compound with the adequate arms
scoring direct and certain hits.
Meanwhile, another group of (LRB) was targeting
Hemayed position with the proper weapons chalking up definite goals…(2)
"Israeli" aggressions wounded two civilians:
"The "Israeli" jets destroyed an empty three-floor building south
of Jibaa in Iqleem al-Toffah.
"The jets dropped several bombs on the building located 100 meters from an
army checkpoint in the area, flattening it. Few dared to approach the building
as "Israeli" jets continued to fly at a low altitude over the area.
"Two women who live in the vicinity were lightly wounded. Maymana Safa, 67,
and Khadija Haidar,
23, were treated at the South Hospital in
Nabatieh"…(3)
"The "Israeli" shelling on Baraasheit early today (yesterday)
damaged six houses, in clear violation of a 1996 internationally-monitored
cease-fire agreement, which bans attacks on and from civilian areas. Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak has pledged to withdraw occupation forces from
southern Lebanon by July, but he has remained vague on whether he would order a
pull out if a peace agreement with Beirut and Damascus is not reached. Lebanon
has been demanding the implementation of the 1978 UN Security Resolution 425,
calling for an immediate and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from the south.
Late this afternoon, security sources in the south said Israeli forces have
expelled two families from the occupied zone. "Israel" has been coming
under mounting international criticism for its systematic expulsion of Lebanese
civilians from the occupied zone"…(4)
For its part, the IR released a communiqué in which
it reported the following "Israeli" aggressions:
00:45, three 155mm missiles fell on Salhani area and
two 160mm missiles on the perimeters of Yater village.
Between 6:40 and 13:55, Baraasheit town and its
peripheries came under several barrages of 12.7mm heavy machine and Lancher gun
bullets causing damage to the houses of Ali Fouad Khalaf, Hussein El-Hadi,
Ibrahim Chehab, Salman Jaghbir, Ali El-Hadi and Mohammd Shammout.
6:45, the area between Baraasheit and Beit Yahoun
towns was bombarded by fifteen 120mm shells.
Between 12:15 and 18:10, Mount Sojod was shelled by
six 155mm missiles.
12:50, ten 155mm missiles slammed into Qaissieh
Valley.
15:55, the "Israeli" warplanes raided into
the perimeters of Jibaa town destroying a three-storey building about 100 meters
only from a Lebanese Army checkpoint. The "Israeli" sortie inflicted
the civilians Maimana Safa, 50, and Khadijeh Haidar 30.
19:00, several 81mm flare shells were fired over
Sojod compound.
19:30, ten 120mm shells landed Dallafeh area…(5)
"ISRAEL" GETTING READY TO ABANDON SOJOD
FORTIFICATION: SOURCES…(6)
"Security sources in the south were quoted as saying "Israeli"
occupation troops and their allied militia are getting ready to vacate the Sojod
outpost in the central sector of the occupied zone. Sources said
"Israeli" allied militiamen have been refusing to man the position,
which has become a target of regular resistance attacks. Sources added, all
attempts to secure the outpost against resistance operations have failed. They
expected troops to abandon the fortification in the next few days. Occupation
forces earlier this month withdrew from the Kfar Houna post on the edge of the
Jezzine panhandle, after militiamen refused to man the fortification, and
following a series of successful resistance attacks".
"Israeli" detained six citizens ... (7)
"The "Israeli" forces seized six civilians from the village of
Naqoura and detained them at the Khiam prison. Witnesses said Israelis imposed a
siege on the village, where UNIFIL headquarters are located, and banned people
from leaving or entering.
"UNIFIL is still trying to secure the release of a Lebanese cook at the
peacekeepers’ headquarters who was arrested by the collaborators over the
weekend.
"The agency’s liaison branch is holding “high level contacts” to free
Hussein Atwi, 36, who was grabbed from his home in Naqoura and taken to Khiam on
Saturday.
Atwi is one of 150 Lebanese employed by the peacekeepers.
The "Israeli" agents deported four-member
family…(8)
Wissam Zalloum Joudieh and her three children, aged 2, 8 and 11, were evicted
from their home in the town of Mari in Hasbaya.
"All were said to have been deported in reprisal for the escape of
Zalloum’s husband, Wassim Joudieh, to Lebanese-held territory five months
ago".
Footnotes:
1- Future
TV, 25-1-2000.
2- IR statement, 25-1-2000.
3- The Daily Star, 26-1-2000.
4- Future TV, 25-1-2000.
5- IR statement, 25-1-2000.
6- Future TV, 25-1-2000.
7- The Daily Star, 26-1-2000.
8- Same source.