Little more than two weeks after the U.S-brokered cease-fire brought relative calm to the region, Hezbollah militias have resumed limited military activities in the southern Lebanon security zone.
The Iranian-backed Shi’ite extremists exchanged fire with an Israeli patrol Monday and fired on an Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army outpost the following day.
But Hezbollah units did not launch any Katyusha rockets at Israeli settlements along the Galilee border.
Repeated Katyusha attacks on Galilee had prompted Israel to begin its weeklong shelling of southern Lebanon in late July.
Hezbollah officials are now claiming that they will only fire Katyusha rockets at Israel in response to Israel Defense Force attacks on Lebanese civilians in Lebanon.
But according to recent Hezbollah announcements, the militia units plan to continue targeting IDF and SLA troops in the security zone as part of their ongoing efforts to force Israeli troops and their allies from Lebanese territory.
IDF sources said that light arms fire had been directed at an armored patrol operating near Kaukaba in the eastern sector of the security zone Monday.
The assault caused neither casualties nor damage, said the Israeli military sources, and their patrol returned the fire.
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