Hizb’Allah Shelling Kills Teenager
Charles Johnson
Sun Aug 10, 2003 at 9:14 am PDT • Views: 198
The Iranian-backed Islamic terror gang Hizb’Allah is stepping up their attacks into Israel, firing anti-aircraft shells across the Lebanese border today and killing a 16-year old boy.
Haviv Dadon, a 16-year-old boy from the northern border town of Shlomi, died from wounds sustained in a cross-border shelling attack by Hizbullah.
It is the first fatality in over a year of such shelling by Hizbullah. (Click here for a list of incidents on the border in the last three years.) The anti-aircraft shells landed on the town of Shlomi in the western Galilee. Four others were lightly wounded by shrapnel.
All were evacuated to the Nahariya Government Hospital by Magen David Adom “Natan” mobile intensive care ambulances.
Dore Gold, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said the shelling constituted “unbridled escalatory attacks … an intolerable state of affairs.”
The Air Force has since destroyed the Hizbullah battery, according to the IDF Spokesman’s Office. Lebanese officials said warplanes fired at least one air-to surface missile on an area near the village of Teir Harfa, about 3 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border.
UPDATE: The Associated Press seems to think northern Israel has been renamed “Hezbollah:” Shelling in Hezbollah Kills 1, Hurts 4. (Hat tip: ivan.)
UPDATE: A disgracefully slanted headline at CNN: Israel strikes Hezbollah positions in Lebanon.
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