-Caveat Lector-
"A 20-man Israeli infantry unit moved into Arnoun, a village in Lebanon
near where one Israeli soldier was killed in a roadside bombing earlier, and
seized it, effectively annexing it to the 425-square-mile Israeli-occupied
zone"
Israel Seizes Village in Lebanon
NABATIYEH, Lebanon (AP) -- Israeli troops seized a village in southern
Lebanon on Thursday night, hours after their planes blasted suspected
guerrilla hideouts, Lebanese security officials said.
They said the jets fired at least four missiles near the Shiite Muslim
villages of Zibqine, Jebal al-Boutom and Sheyabieh. There was no immediate
word on casualties from the airstrikes and a ground clash that preceded it.
The Israeli army confirmed the airstrikes.
The security officials said a 20-man Israeli infantry unit, accompanied by
two Merkava tanks and a bulldozer, moved Thursday night toward Arnoun, an
inland village near the area where an Israeli soldier was killed in a
roadside bombing on Monday.
They met no resistance. They were apparently planning to seal off Arnoun and
effectively annex it to the rest of the 425-square-mile Israeli-occupied
zone, said the officials, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.
There was no confirmation from Israel that its troops had taken Arnoun, which
is about 4 miles southeast of the market town of Nabatiyeh and about the same
distance from the Israeli border to the south.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said in Jersualem on Monday
that Israel would not accept ``as inevitable attacks on our soldiers.''
He said Lebanon had violated an unwritten agreement that no guerrilla attacks
would be launched from Arnoun.
``We are doing what we need to do to handle these threats,'' he said.
Arnoun has been a frequent target of Israeli retaliation for attacks by
guerrillas seeking to drive some 1,500 Israeli soldiers and 2,500 allied
militiamen from the occupied zone.
On Feb. 17, Israeli troops fenced off Arnoun in what they said was a bid to
reduce guerrilla infiltration. Lebanese university students marched and cut
down the barbed wire a week later.
Thursday night's Israeli incursion came a day after the Lebanese government
refused to heed a U.S. request to send its army to the village, a move that
could have forestalled the push.
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