In Iqlim al Tuffah, South Lebanon...Mleeta tourist landmark of the resistance, a natural museum. Its aim is to preserve the places where the resistance fighters lived their experience against the Israeli enemy since its occupation of Beirut in 1982.
LEBANON: ISRAELI PLANES RAID GUERRILLA BASES
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Israeli warplanes raided Southern Lebanon on Saturday, targeting guerrilla strongholds in the area.
Two Israeli planes fired missiles at alleged Hezbollah positions and then flew back to base.
No casualties have been reported.
The Israeli fighter-bombers fired two missiles Saturday at the Mlita hills in the Iqlim al- Tuffah mountain ridge in the south of Lebanon.
Their target was the pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas who control the area.
Hezbollah and Israeli troops have been fighting each other in the region since Israel invaded South Lebanon in 1985, establishing a 15 kilometres deep security zone to prevent cross border guerrilla attacks.
Saturday's raid took place in an area controlled by pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas which lies just north of Israel security zone.
The Hezbollah, or Party of God, has been attacking Israeli positions trying to oust the one and a half thousand Israeli troops and their Lebanese Christian allies, the two and a half thousand strong South Lebanon Army, from the security zone.
Israeli troops also opened fire on guerrilla positions in the highlands, but no injuries were reported.
The air raid is the second this week.
On Wednesday, Israeli warplanes rocketed suspected Hezbollah targets in Lebanon's Syrian-controlled eastern Bekaa valley.
Saturday's air-raid against Lebanon is the 40th since the beginning of the year.
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As U-S President Bill Clinton and his Syrian counterpart Hafez Assad meet in Switzerland in an attempt to get the Middle East peace process back on track, violence has continued to flare in south Lebanon.
Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets at Israeli and allied militia outposts in the occupied zone on Sunday, in retaliation for Israeli shelling in the highlands of Iqlim al-Tuffah.
Once again gunfire was heard echoing around the hills of the occupied zone on Sunday.
Politicians are attempting to bring peace back to the Middle East through diplomatic means.
But guerrilla groups look set to ignore the efforts of U-S President Bill Clinton and his Syrian counterpart Hafez Assad.
Hezbollah reported on Sunday that its guerrillas had fired rockets and mortar shells at Israeli and allied militia outposts in the occupied zone.
The action was in retaliation for Israeli shelling that struck suspected guerrilla positions in the highlands of Iqlim Al-Tuffah, a guerrilla stronghold.
The Lebanese Red Cross Centre in Nabatieh suffered extensive damage.
Ambulances and other hospital vehicles were badly hit.
Parked cars and houses in the vicinity of the hospital were also affected by the shelling.
There are no reports of any injuries.
Presidents Clinton and Assad are meeting in Geneva to try to break a stalemate which has been in place since Syria suspended negotiations last December.
The shelling is expected to continue from the Israeli and Lebananese guerrillas as long as both sides believe that their demands are not being met.
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