Daily Report

September Saturday 11 -1999:

Introduction
Hizbullah's Secretary General H.E Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah stressed that the only escape for "Israel" is to withdraw for the IR's military operations will continue hurting the "Israeli" enemy.

Meanwhile, the "Israeli" occupying troops intensified their detention campaign against the Lebanese civilians in the occupied zone for their refusal to collaborate with them.

However, AFP reported that "Israel" is still periodically using flechette shells in South Lebanon despite the death of several civilians and one UN worker from the deadly darts which are banned by international conventions.

Hizbullah’s secretary general: we are not easily intimidated and the Resistance is ready to respond…(1)
"Hizbullah’s secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah stressed that the latest “Israeli” aggression on the northern Beqaa was a message that implied that the Zionist hand is long and can reach the depth of the Lebanese territory. He also added that the Islamic Resistance would do its duty in facing this message.

"The secretary general also stressed that the only escape for “Israel” is to withdraw, because the resistance’s operation hurts the enemy while “Israel” is not ready to commit the same sacrifices as the Islamic Resistance’s sacrifices.

"The president of the writers union Mr. Mohammad Baalbaki following his visit with Sayyed Nassrallah quoted these statements.

"The secretary general also received Khaled Jamal Abdul Nasser who was accompanied by the MPs Najah Wakim, Mustafa Saad and Dr. Bshar Kuwatly. Abdel Nasser praised the great role that the resistance was offering. He also said that I expressed to Sayyed Nassrallah, the interconnection of the Egyptian people with all the operations of the Resistance that are executed by Hizbullah against the Zionist enemy. And we aspire that this role reaches the entire Arab nation. He also quoted his father by saying that our struggle with the Zionist enemy is a struggle of existence and not just a border struggle".

The “Israeli” detention campaign against Lebanese civilians intensifies…(2)
"The “Israeli” forces intensified their detention campaign against Lebanese civilians in the occupied territory for their refusal to collaborate with them. According to sources the inhabitants of the town of Kfar Hamam tore down pictures of the leader of the “Israeli” militia Antoine Lahd and the slain traitor Wissam Taha. The inhabitants refused to bury the traitor Taha in their town, which led to a struggle between them and the traitors Ismail Al-Zaghloul, Ali Hassan Khalifeh and Ali Mohamed Khalifeh.

Following that incident the traitor Ahmed Shibli arrived with reinforcement and surrounded the town as well as detaining a number of its inhabitants. "In the town of Blat in Marjeyoun the citizen Haitham Bahjat refused to collaborate with the enemy. Then, the “Israelis” took him to Al-Khiam camp.

"As for the citizen Samir Atar from the town of Rshaf, he was given the choice of either collaborating with the enemy or being banished from his town. Atar was then ordered to leave for not collaborating, and was taken to Kfar Tibneet crossing point to enter the liberated area and was warned not to return".

Hizbullah condemns the kidnapping of the journalist Cosette Ibrahim…(3)
"Hizbullah announced the following: the kidnapping of the journalist Cosette Ibrahim by the “Israeli” forces from her town of the occupied Rmeish is proof of the extent that it has reached in undermining human rights. It is also a witness to the terrorist acts that are practiced by the Zionist enemy against our people".

"We request all concerned international organizations to work hand in hand to release Ibrahim as well as all detainees in “Israeli” cells".

Flechette shell wreak havoc on Lebanese civilians: Unifil…(4)
" "Israel" is still periodically using flechette shells in southern Lebanon, despite the deaths of several civilians and one UN worker from the deadly darts that UN forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) believe are implicitly banned by international conventions. The shells, each containing between eight and 12,000 five centimeter (two inch) long steel darts, are not expressly named in any weapons convention, a UNIFIL officer who asked to remain anonymous told AFP Friday. "However, the fact that they are not aimed at a specific target but scatter over a wide area, inflicting serious damage, including damage to civilian facilities, puts them indirectly into the category of banned weapons," he said. The 120 millimeter shells are fired by tank cannon and explode at a height of 500 meters (1600 feet), scattering the darts over an area of about one square kilometer (half a square mile), he said. A Norwegian member of UNIFIL was killed in southern Lebanon in 1993, when he was struck in the head by one of the darts. "We protested via the "Israel"-UNIFIL liaison committee. The "Israeli" army suspended their use for a time, but still uses them from time to time," the officer said. Often it is Lebanese civilians who are the victims of the shells, he added. In 1995, three members of one family were hit by darts when a shell exploded over the field they were ploughing in a village outside the "Israel"-occupied zone of southern Lebanon. One son was killed, the father was seriously injured and a second son was also hurt. Last year another man was injured as he stood at the door of his house, and his seven year old daughter was killed. In May this year, two workers with the Lebanese water authority were injured in an orchard. The doctor who operated on one of them in the hospital in Tyre told AFP that it took five hours to remove two darts which had lodged in the man's skull. The victim is still undergoing treatment, and suffers from constant headaches. Since that attack, UNIFIL forces have found holes from the darts riddling the walls of countless houses in the region".

"Israeli" Aggressions…(5)
In its communiqué, the Islamic Resistance (IR) mentioned the following "Israeli" aggressions:
00:20, an "Israeli" warboat was seen cruising off the seashore of Adloun town.
5:30, two 120mm shells hit Mount Sojod.
15:05, the perimeters of Shaqra village exposed to a volley of 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets.

Military Operations…(6)
The Islamic Resistance (IR) militants observed, at 22:30, enemy movements inside Sojod outpost. Shortly afterwards, the IR unit of martyrs Mustafa Moussa Abdel-Karim and Kamel Hassan Mohieddine targeted them with the machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades scoring direct and certain goals.


Footnotes:
1- Al-Manar TV, 10-9-1999.
2- Same source.
3- Same source.
4- Future TV, 10-9-1999.
5- IR statement, 10-9-1999.