"There were 124 "Israeli" ground, air, and sea aggressions on more than 100 Lebanese areas and districts during December 1998".

"Air aggressions constituted 31.6% of the gross aggressions (32.9% in November).

In December "Israel" added a new hideous massacre to its history which is already full of crimes against Lebanese peaceful civilians".

"On Dec. 22 "Israeli" warplanes raided with six missiles an under-construction house at the entrance of the town of Janta (Beqaa). The raid annihilated a family of six children and their mother besides seriously wounding the father. The family members were preparing to break their fasting in the holy month of Ramadan when the massacre took place turning the bodies of Mohammed Amin Othman's family into charred remains and small pieces".

"The martyrs are Mohammed's wife Nadwa al-Sayyed, 35, his children Amina, 16, Amin, 14, Souad, 12, Abda, 10, Ali, 5, and Sobhi 18 months".

"The "Israeli" raid was condemned by all Lebanese political, religious and popular bodies and figures. Lebanon sent a letter of protest to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in which Beirut rejected the "Israeli" "apology" for killing the victims. Lebanon also filed a complaint with the April Understanding Monitoring Group".

"Moreover, December witnessed "Israeli" provocative mock air raids which were carried out over the capital Beirut and other Lebanese cities, panicking civilians, especially in schools as some schoolchildren left their classes and returned home for fear of "Israeli" aggressions".

""Israeli" warplanes also raided the al-Mashaeb area (in the woods of the Jbal al-Botom town) on Dec. 3; the deserted mills near the Habboush River, Wadi Zillaya, Birkit al-Jabbour, Abu Rashed (western Beqaa) on Dec. 4; Jabal al-Rafieh Hilltops, Mazraat Oqmata on Dec. 12; a wadi between Zillaya and Qilia on Dec. 13; Mothallath al-Tamerieh, Wadi al-Molook, and wadi al-Qaissieh (Khorbet Selim) on Dec. 18; and al-Jabbour Hilltops and the woods of Abu Rashid (western Beqaa) on Dec. 22.

On the other hand, "Israeli" bombardment of the town of al-Tiri wounded a woman whom UNIFIL troops were able to pull back and hand over to the Red Cross".

"On Dec. 17 and "Israeli" commando unit killed a 17-year-old scout boy. Mohsen Abdel-Raoof Khalaf was martyred while performing his duty as a civil defense volunteer".

"Occupation forces' gunboats on Dec. 5 encircled Lebanese fishermen's gunboats off the shore between Rashiedieh, Qlaileh, and al-Mansouri (south of Tyre)".

"The "Israeli" gun boats showered the fishermen's boats with heavy machine gun fire wounding Malik Sikmani, 34, while another 11fishermen narrowly escaped death".

"In other "Israeli" practices inside the occupation zone, "Israeli" forces on Dec. 25 stormed into the town of Shibaa after blocking it off".

"Some of the town's residents were questioned by the occupation troops who also detained 16 people, including 5 Lahd militia members, under the pretext of looking for those who assassinated collaborator Ghassan Daher who was mysteriously killed earlier".

"Press reports said Daher was preparing to flee the occupied zone following the "Israeli" reports of an imminent "Israeli" withdrawal from the occupied zone".

"Other press reports said a UNIFIL officer stated that "Israeli" occupation forces and their proxy militia carried out an earlier campaign of detentions on Dec. 6 in the occupied town of al-Tiri, abducting ten residents, including seven women. The farmers who were on their way to their olive groves in Bait Leef were taken to the Saf al-Hawa detention center (Bint Jbeil)."

"Reports added that the collaborator militia has summoned Mahmoud Abdallah Shaito, 65, of al-Tiri, to Saf al-Hawa for questioning. The militia also detained three of its members for investigation after the clash between "Israeli" and militia patrols in al-Majiedieh".

"The collaborator militia also detained Youssef Ali Ahmed, 50, a taxi drivers of the town of al-Khiam, on Dec. 7, Raef Essa from the town of Ramia on Dec. 19, and Salam Abbas Swaid on Dec. 30 claiming that the latter cooperated with "enemy security bodies".

"On Dec. 27. an "Israeli" motorized force advanced to the eastern neighborhood of the town of Arnoun, destroyed seven houses, and demolished dozens of olive trees that surrounded the houses in which the occupation claimed to have found weapons and ammunition, an accusation flatly denied by the residents."

"The "Israeli" occupation forces on Dec. 3 expelled Sami Youssef Nammour, 28, through the Zimrayya crossing, claiming that he "cooperated with Lebanese security bodies". Nammour had been detained a week before he was expelled".

December witnessed a number of tours and celebrations made or attended by the enemy military commanders.

"On Dec. 12, a military meeting was held at the Marjeyoun barracks in the presence of "Israeli" army officers and collaborator militia commanders".

"The meeting aimed at discussing the situation in the occupied zone following the increasing resistance operations and the mounting "Israeli" losses, besides the question of cooperation between some militiamen, especially Maronites, with the resistance, a fact that has shocked the "Israeli" political leadership".

"A joint "Israeli"-Lahdi military delegation on Dec. 30 toured the Jezzine sector and inspected the outposts which the proxy militia had evacuated."

"The "Israeli" military delegation met the Lahd militia command in the sector.

On Dec. 31, commander of the northern area in the "Israeli" occupation army Gaby Askenazi visited the occupied zone and inspected the site of a clash between two Golani units in al-Taibeh.

A celebration has been held in the occupied zone in the presence of the liaison unit commander Gen. Erez Gerstein. The rally was not attended by the proxy militia's commander Antione Lahd who was reportedly spending the holidays with his family in France. However, reports affirmed that Lahd left the area for an unknown destination after the unrest in the ranks of his militia.

The collaborator militia carried out war games at the Majiedieh Institute for Training on Dec. 2 in the presence of Gerstein and Lahd".

"Joint "Israeli"-collaborator forces carried out two war games with live ammunition on Dec. 7 and Dec. 14 with the aim of intercepting any potential advancement at the Hasbayya axis.

The occupation and its collaborators also reinforced their positions at the Shraifeh hilltop, and closed the crossings of Kfarfalous, Zimrayya and Roum."

"These aggressions resulted in the martyrdom of eight civilian, one Islamic Resistance martyr, wounding seven civilians, detaining 33 people (including eight Lahd militiamen), expelling one resident, destroying seven houses and damaging ten others".

"Israeli" aggressions on Lebanon in the year 1998:
- killed 21 civilians
- wounded 100 civilians
- 318 people were detained
- 38 people were deported
- 340 houses were damaged.