Hizbollah Fire from Lebanon Hits Israel, 1 Dead by Reuters 2:20pm Sun Aug 10 '03 SHLOMI, Israel (Reuters) - An anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon slammed into northern Israel Sunday, killing one person and wounding four others, military sources said. print article SHLOMI, Israel (Reuters) - An anti-aircraft shell fired by Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon slammed into northern Israel Sunday, killing one person and wounding four others, military sources said. The death was the first in Israel from Hizbollah fire since Israeli forces withdrew from south Lebanon three years ago and raised the prospect of Israeli retaliation against the group, its Syrian ally or Lebanon. The sources said Hizbollah fired anti-aircraft shells, which fell on the town of Shlomi, two days after the guerrilla group launched anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs at Israeli army posts on the border for the first time in seven months. "An air defense unit of the Islamic resistance confronted...Zionist enemy planes that violated Lebanese sovereignty over the western sector of south Lebanon," Hizbollah said in a statement faxed to Reuters in Beirut. Hizbollah has been firing anti-aircraft shells sporadically in recent weeks in response to what it said were Israeli overflights of south Lebanon. Some of the shells have hit Israeli communities, causing damage but no serious casualties. "It's provocation by Hizbollah...they are not shooting anti-aircraft fire but fire against people. Hizbollah is playing with fire," Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim told Army Radio after Sunday's incident. "We have no desire to open a new front...but we cannot agree to our people in the north being hurt." Israel lodged a complaint with the United Nations after Friday's attack at Shebaa Farms, an area Hizbollah regards as Lebanese territory and the United Nations has declared Israeli-occupied Syrian land. Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman warned Syria and Lebanon in a letter submitted to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Israel would have "no option but to take the necessary measures to protect its citizens" unless they restrained Hizbollah. Hizbollah said it launched Friday's attack in response to a car bombing, which the group blamed on Israel, that killed a Hizbollah official in Beirut last week. reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=world... add your comments