LEBANON: FUNERAL OF HEZBOLLAH GUERRILLA KILLED IN ISRAELI AIR RAID

Описание: (10 Aug 1997) Arabic/Nat

Guerrillas clashed with Israeli soldiers on Sunday in the Israeli-occupied enclave in southern Lebanon, killing a soldier and wounding another, security officials said.

The attack was the latest in more than a week of fighting between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli and allied forces.

Fourteen Lebanese and one Israeli have died in the fighting, the highest toll since a U-S-brokered understanding contained hostilities on the border in April 1996.

Emotional scenes at a funeral on Sunday in the eastern Lebanese town -- and Hezbollah stronghold -- of Baalbek.

It's the funeral of a Hezbollah guerrilla killed in an Israeli air raid on Saturday.

He was another casualty in more than a week of fighting between Hezbollah, Israel and Israeli-allied forces in Lebanon.

With an Israeli soldier killed on Sunday, the toll from the fighting now stands at fourteen Lebanese dead to one Israeli.

Courage when facing Israeli forces was the Hezbollah way, one of the movement's top officials told the mourners.

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"This is the resistance, this is the Shi'ite (way), standing with great courage to face the Israeli attack, not waiting for their officials to send (such) messages."
SUPER CAPTION: Sheikh Mohamad Yazbek, Hezbollah Council Member

Hezbollah, or Party of God, has been leading the fight to drive Israel and its allied militia out of Lebanon.

This shelling here was Hezbollah bombarding positions of the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army (S-L-A) on Saturday, in response to the Israeli air raid the same day.

Some 1,500 Israeli soldiers and 2,500 S-L-A militiamen patrol the self-declared Israeli "security zone" in the south.

Top Lebanese officials have this week accused Israel of deliberately escalating attacks against Lebanon and of planning a full-scale attack against it.

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