Summary
Hezbollah guerrillas detonated a large explosive device near an Israeli military patrol in the occupied Shebaa Farms Monday, prompting the Jewish state to respond by shelling a nearby Lebanese village, a security source told The Daily Star.
A Hezbollah statement said the attack was in retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah commander Samir Kuntar last month outside Damascus.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had vowed last month to avenge the killing of Kuntar.
Hezbollah had targeted an Israeli military patrol in the same area on Jan. 28, 2015 which killed two soldiers, in retaliation for an Israeli airstrike 10 days earlier that killed six party fighters in southern Syria.
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