Hezbollah fires missiles at Israeli posts in Shebaa Farms
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JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon launched anti-tank missiles and mortars Monday at Israel Defense Forces posts in the disputed Shebaa Farms area, Israeli military sources said.
No injuries or damage were reported, the sources said.
Israel responded with artillery fire "toward the source of the mortars directed at our forces," the sources said.
In a statement sent to CNN's Beirut bureau, Hezbollah said its fighters had fired rockets at Israeli positions in Roueissat, Elalan, Samaka and Ranta and "scored direct hits."
As a result, Hezbollah said that Israeli forces had shelled the village of Halfa in southern Lebanon.
The Shebaa Farms is an area near the poorly defined borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria that Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Syria says Shebaa is part of Lebanon. Lebanon agrees Shebaa is its territory, but Israel says Shebaa farms are part of the Golan Heights.
Israeli diplomats say Shebaa farms could not be part of Lebanon because a May 2000 U.N. report certified that Israel had withdrawn entirely from Lebanon (in compliance with U.N. Resolution 425). The U.N. position is that the area is part of Israeli-occupied Syria.
The United States has designated Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
