Amid Hezbollah threats, Israeli army orders citizens to avoid Lebanon border
- 8 years ago
Farmers, residents in the country's north have been ordered by the Israeli Defense Forces to avoid work or travel near the border fence with Lebanon, The Israeli daily Israel Hayom reported Wednesday.
The warning come amid concerns that Hezbollah will retaliate again Israel for an alleged airstrike in which terrorist Samir Kuntar was killed in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday.
Israel has not acknowledged responsibility for the incident, however fighters claiming to be from the Free Syrian Army uploaded a video on YouTube Monday, in which they claimed that they were responsible for the assassination of Samir Kuntar and his bodyguards.
Kuntar spent 29 years in Israeli custody over his role in the brutal slaying of four Israelis as part of a group which carried out a terror raid from Lebanon in 1979 on the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.
The warning come amid concerns that Hezbollah will retaliate again Israel for an alleged airstrike in which terrorist Samir Kuntar was killed in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday.
Israel has not acknowledged responsibility for the incident, however fighters claiming to be from the Free Syrian Army uploaded a video on YouTube Monday, in which they claimed that they were responsible for the assassination of Samir Kuntar and his bodyguards.
Kuntar spent 29 years in Israeli custody over his role in the brutal slaying of four Israelis as part of a group which carried out a terror raid from Lebanon in 1979 on the northern Israeli town of Nahariya.