BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Hizbollah suicide attack on a militia
post in south Lebanon on Friday killed four pro-Israeli
militiamen and wounded three, a pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army
(SLA) source said.
``A pickup vehicle entered the position and the driver blew
it up, destroying a large part of the post'' in Aramta, in the
eastern sector of Israel's south Lebanon occupation zone, the
SLA source said.
Israeli warplanes attacked the area shortly afterwards,
witnesses said. Later, Israeli jets attacked areas in Iqlim
al-Toufah -- a Hizbollah stronghold in south Lebanon.
There were no immediate reports of casualties from either
air raid.
The SLA source said seven militiamen were in the post at the
time of the attack, and the three who survived were only lightly
wounded.
In Beirut, the Hizbollah guerrilla group backed by Syria and
Iran claimed responsibility for the attack.
The incident raised to 11 the number of SLA killed in south
Lebanon so far this year. Twenty-five have been wounded in the
same period.
Israel has said it will pull out of the occupation zone by
July this year. It set up the zone in 1985 with the declared aim
of protecting its northern territory against cross-border
attacks.
Hizbollah has not made clear whether it would continue
attacking Israeli targets after the withdrawal.
