Re: who started it, Israel or Hezbollah? (split from Should Pakistan support Arabs)
underthedome:
It’s amusing you guys don’t want to celebrate the success of Hezbollah penetration of Israelis boarders but instead are scrapping at 2nd hand accounts of what happened.
**Hezbollah kidnapped two Israel Defense Forces soldiers on the northern border in the midst of massive shelling attacks on Israel's north Wednesday morning**. The IDF confirmed two of its soldiers were missing on the Lebanese border.
**Hezbollah fighters attacked two IDF armored Hummer jeeps patrolling along the border with gunfire and explosives. The Hezbollah fighters nabbed two of the soldiers and wounded others in the Hummers. **
Immediately following the Hezbollah attack, the organization's Al-Manar television station began broadcasting clips calling on Israel to release Lebanese prisoners held in Israel. The Hezbollah demands emphasized the release of Lebanese militant Samir Al-Kuntar. Al-Manar also broadcast video clips of previous Palestinian and Lebanese attacks on IDF troops.
**"Fulfilling its pledge to liberate the (Arab) prisoners and detainees, the Islamic Resistance ... captured two Israeli soldiers at the border with occupied Palestine**," the Syrian- and Iranian-backed Hezbollah said in a statement.
"The two captives were transferred to a safe place," it said, without stating what condition the soldiers were in.
**Two other Israelis were wounded when gunmen in Lebanon began pounding the IDF's Zarit position and other posts along the border before 9 A.M. According to Al-Manar, Hezbollah kidnapped the two IDF soldiers at 9:05 A.M. and transferred them to a safe location**
[http://www.palestinechronicle.org/story-07120675951.htm](http://www.palestinechronicle.org/story-07120675951.htm)
Ma Mooli, get you facts stright!
:hehe: utd luv, the article in the palestine chronicles is not from the horses mouth for two reasons ..1) we are talking about lebanon here, hence palestine chronicles does not seem very lebanese-ish to me (D’oh),
So it may be straight from the dog’s mouth (Haaretz) mate, but thats about it methinks.