Hezbollah fires at Israeli planes, Israel says one wounded in north

TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) Aug 03, 2003
The radical Shiite group Hezbollah fired at Israeli warplanes over southern Lebanon on Sunday, slightly wounding one person in northern Israel, police on the two sides of the border said.

Anti-aircraft batteries targeted the Israeli planes over the western sector of the border zone, Lebanese police said.

One Israeli was slightly injured when shrapnel fell in the village of Even Menachem just over the border near the Mediterranean coast, an Israeli police source told AFP.

The Islamic Resistance, an armed offshoot of Hezbollah, said its air defences "fired at 10 am local time (0700 GMT) at Zionist planes which violated the airspace".

Hezbollah, with fighters deployed along the southern border, threatened the Jewish state on July 23 with "costly" reprisals if Israel's air force continued its almost daily violations of Lebanese airspace despite UN condemnation.

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