Linichka wrote:How typical, all of you instantly deciding Israel plotted this or just spontaneously shot up the Lebanese for fun. Even UNIFIL, definitely no ally to Israel, has declared the IDF was on its own side of the border, carrying out routine work already coordinated with this body. It was a Hezbollah ambush....and they had a journalist along, funnily enough.
The Lebanese and Israeli armies gave different descriptions of the events leading up to the skirmish, while the U.N. peacekeeping force stationed in southern Lebanon said it had yet to ascertain the circumstances leading to the bloodshed.
The Lebanese army said an Israeli patrol had crossed the technical line of the border even though U.N. peacekeepers in the area told it to stop.
"A Lebanese army force then repelled it using rocket propelled grenades. A clash happened in which the enemy forces used machine guns and tank fire targeting army posts and civilian houses," it said.
Major-General Gadi Eisenkot, head of Israel's northern command, said a Lebanese sniper squad fired at officers inside Israeli territory. He said an Israeli tank came under fire from a rocket-propelled grenade, and when it missed, the tank fired and killed the RPG squad.
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