BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 29 (UPI) -- An uneasy calm prevailed along the Lebanese-Israeli frontier Monday, a day after violence flared following a rocket attack on north Israel.
"The situation is calm but very tense and fragile, said Miloch Struger, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon known as UNIFIL.
"The clashes that occurred on Sunday between Israeli forces and Hezbollah were the most violent and dangerous since the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon in 2000," Struger said in a statement.
Israeli troops and Hezbollah gunmen exchanged heavy gunfire for hours Sunday after Israel carried out aistrikes at Palestinian and Hezbollah strongholds in response to rockets fired from Lebanon.
Raids targeted positions of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command south of Beirut, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding six others. Also a Hezbollah gunman was killed in raids on the party positions in south Lebanon.
No group claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on Israel which came two days after an Islamic Jihad official and his brother were killed in a car bomb in south Lebanon which the Palestinians and Hezbollah blamed on Israel.
A cease-fire was arranged later Sunday under U.N. sponsorship and as a result of efforts deployed by the U.S. and France.
"All parties are committed until this hour to the cease-fire reached yesterday," Struger said.
A Lebanese army statement, in the meantime, said 10 Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace Monday morning, flying over several Lebanese regions, including the south and east Lebanon which is close to the Syrian border.
