TEL AVIV, Israel, June 20 (UPI) -- Israeli aircraft Sunday destroyed a Hezbollah outpost in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah anti-aircraft fire hit a northern Israeli community.
The army spokesman said that at noon Hezbollah fired at the western Galilee "under the guise of anti-aircraft fire." Fragments of its anti-aircraft shells landed south of the border, in Shomera, causing neither damage nor injuries.
The army spokesman would not say whether Israeli planes penetrated Lebanese air space before the shooting began.
Usually Israeli planes fly at very high altitudes, outside Hezbollah's range, and military sources said Hezbollah then fires anti-aircraft fire to the skies over Israeli communities even if there are no planes there.
The army spokesman said that following "the Hezbollah attack," the air force "targeted and destroyed a Hezbollah outpost in the western sector of southern Lebanon from which a cannon is used to fire on northern Israel." A military source said the cannon was an anti-aircraft cannon and the pilots reported accurate hits.
In August 2003 shrapnel from Hezbollah anti aircraft fire killed an Israeli teenager.
