2006 Redux? Israel Shells Lebanon After Hezbollah Bombs Israeli Convoy

• 2006 Redux? Israel Shells Lebanon After Hezbollah Bombs Israeli Convoy
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com 
  Two weeks ago, the IAF assassinated infamous Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar. Kuntar was held by Israel for nearly three decades in connection with his role in a 1979 raid that killed four people including a four-year-old girl. He returned to Lebanon in 2008 in a prisoner swap with Hezbollah, which he subsequently joined.
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  To the Israelis, Kuntar is evil incarnate – the very embodiment of terrorism. For many in Iran and Lebanon, he’s something of a folk hero. 
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  Kuntar was killed on December 19 in an airstrike on Damascus that many suspected was carried out by the IAF although Israel didn’t immediately confirm or deny its involvement, with one official saying only that “it is good that people like Samir Kuntar will not be part of our world.”
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  The question, we said at the time, is “what Hassan Nasrallah plans to do about” Kuntar’s death. Well on Monday, just as the worsening spat between Saudi Arabia and Iran tipped the region even further into chaos,Hezbollah set off a “large bomb”, striking an IDF convoy on the Lebanon border. “A cell of the martyr Samir Kuntar detonated the large explosive in Sheba farms area in occupied Lebanon during an IDF patrol causing the destruction of a Hummer and injuring all its passengers,” the group said, in a statement taking credit for the attack, which came a day after Nasrallah said the following:
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  “The Israelis are hiding like rats along the border. The retaliation to Samir’s assassination will inevitably come. Hezbollah would not tolerate the blood of our jihadist fighters and brothers to be shed anywhere in this world.”
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  Monday’s bombing targeted “two armored military vehicles that were clearing a road in the area [and] the IDF has responded with cross-border artillery fire at targets into Lebanon,” The Jerusalem Post writes, adding that “Lebanese media said the explosive was meant to harm a senior Mossad official.” 
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  “We have opened artillery fire, and created a smoke screen to cover the area. We are in control of the incident,” IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Moti Almoz said.
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  The Israeli military had been shelling the Lebanese border for at least four days in the lead up to Monday’s attack. “Hassan Nasrallah has repeatedly vowed revenge for the assassination of arch-terrorist Samir Kuntar two weeks ago. Anticipating such a response, the army has been firing artillery rounds at the border fence,” The Times of Israel wrote on Sunday. Here’s a bit more color from The Post:
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