November Monday 08-1999:Daily Report
Irans foreign minister expresses support
for Lebanese resistance
(1)
Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi reiterated
his countrys support for the resistance on Sunday.
Kharrazi stressed the Islamic Republics support
for the Lebanese peoples resistance against the (Israeli) occupiers,
during talks with Transport Minister Najib Mikati in Tehran.
The Iranian minister emphasized the need to safeguard the unity of the Lebanese people against the Israeli occupiers and expressed hope that the resistance would continue until all Lebanese people acquired their rights.
Mikati, who arrived in Tehran on Saturday for a three-day visit, thanked Iran for its support and called for an expansion of bilateral ties, especially in the economic vein.
Mikati is scheduled to meet Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Monday. Sheikh Nahim Qassem, Hizbullahs deputy secretary-general, said on Saturday that Hizbullah would not be terrified or waiting regardless of Israels intentions.
Were in a confident position because a withdrawal of any kind will be a humiliating withdrawal with no gains, he said.
Protest at new Israeli detention
(2)
The Follow-Up Committee for the Support of Lebanese
Detainees in Israeli Prisons denounced Israeli activities in the occupied
zone on Sunday and called for the release of a man who was kidnapped on
Friday.
Mohammed Toufic Srour, 55, was seized by Israeli intelligence agents and imprisoned at the Khiam detention center. The committee said that Srour was sick and needed medical attention. It has called on the public to participate in marking Detained Teachers Day, which is Monday.
The committee added that Detained Teachers Day, which it said would be recognized around the world, aims to pressure Israel into releasing Lebanese detainees and closing its detentions centers. Students are invited to join a demonstration on Monday at 11am in front of UN House in downtown Beirut.
Israeli Aggressions
(3)
The Islamic Resistance (IR) released a statement
in which it reported the following Israeli aggressions:
00:00, the Israeli war jets fired one air-to-ground
rocket into the perimeters of Zibqeen village.
00:23, the Israeli warplanes staged a sortie
into south of Jibal El-Botom village.
4:30, four 155mm missiles hit Mount Zaatar.
6:35, the area between Haddatha and Rshaf villages
was targeted by three 120mm shells.
Between 12:45 and 13:00, Mount Sojod was bombarded
by thirty 120mm shells and six tank rounds.
19:00, nine 155mm missiles slammed into the peripheries of Mlikh.
Military Operations
(4)
The Islamic Resistance (IR) team of martyrs Ali
Toufic Meshreb and Mohammad Ashmar attacked, at 12:45, Sojod outpost with
the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Direct and certain hits
were chalked up, the mujahedeen told.
The radio of the Israeli allied militia acknowledged that one militiamen was wounded by the bombardment that targeted Sojod outpost. The radio said he was taken to hospital for treatment.
Also, the IR men spotted, at 15:20, enemy movements inside Blat post. Immediately afterwards, the IR unit of martyrs Ali Hachem and Ali Moghnieh targeted them with the proper weapons chalking up direct goals.
Moreover, the IR squad of martyrs Mohammad Safieddine and Karim Maarouf Atwi attacked, at 18:50, an Israeli motorized force at Riha hilltops. The militants, who used the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, were able to chalk up direct hits.
At the same time, the IR group of martyrs Zahi Haidar Ahmad and Ashraf Kheireddine fell upon Bir Kallab outpost with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Direct hits were socred, the militants told.
Meanwhile, the IR team of martyrs Mohammad Hussein Hammoud and Ali Ibrahim
Hassan was rushing upon an Israeli force at Kassaret Al-Oroush compound.
Usind the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, the mujahedeen manged
to score direct goals.