Iran Press/ Middle East: Ahmed Aboul Gheit urged the international community to restrain Israel to prevent the situation from spinning out of control.
"The secretary-general is following developments around the shelling of the territories located on the border between Israel and Lebanon with concern and expresses LAS’ complete solidarity with the Lebanese state. The armed confrontation can spin out of control. The international community is responsible for restraining Israel’s actions, which are taken in domestic electoral interests", LAS said in a statement.
On Sunday, Israeli drones dropped flammable chemicals, including 'white phosphorus bombs' on a Lebanese grove near the border with Israel in an operation that triggered forest fires.
In response, several anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon to target facilities in northern Israel.
Two fighter groups of Hezbullah carried out the operation on Sunday that targeted two Israeli vehicles on the road to the Avivim barracks, outside Sheba'a Farms.
One of the vehicles escaped the Lebanese fighters’ fire, but the other one was totally destroyed leaving all those on board killed or wounded, announced by the Lebanese resistance group, reported Iran Press.
Hezbollah's retaliatory attack prompted the Israeli military to fire 100 projectiles into southern Lebanon.
According to some news reports the Commander of Israeli Army's Northern Division, Afif Kukhafi, was killed in Hezbollah's attack.
The Israeli army used white phosphorus bombs and ordered residents near the border with Lebanon to remain inside and open their bomb shelters. ?
The escalation comes less than three weeks before the Israeli parliamentary elections.
Beirut has repeatedly objected to Israel’s anti-Hezbollah operations in its airspace, insisting that they violate the country's sovereignty and UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his regime is ready to launch another attack on Hezbollah.
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