Hezbollah clashes with Israel in revenge for Yassin killing
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah made good its threat to try to avenge Israel’s killing of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, hitting the Israeli army in the disputed Shebaa Farms border district. Lebanese police said Monday that more than 65 rockets and mortar rounds had been fired on six Israeli positions in the formerly Syrian territory now claimed by Beirut with Damascus’s blessing. But Israel said just one anti-tank round had been fired on a single position. “There were no casualties,” an Israeli military source told AFP, adding that “the air force hit back against the source of the fire.” Full Story