An Israeli soldier was lightly injured by a roadside bomb near Israel’s northern border. The bomb detonated Sunday as a bus traveling to pick up the soldier from an outpost passed by. The incident in Lebanon marked the second recent attempt by Hezbollah gunmen to carry out an attack near the northern border. In December, one soldier and 12 Lebanese civilians were wounded in a suicide car bombing in the area.
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