ISRAEL - LIBANON

Stuff: Israel hits back in Lebanon

SHLOMI: Israeli warplanes have bombed an anti-aircraft battery on the edge of a south Lebanon village in retaliation for shelling by Lebanese guerrillas that killed an Israeli teenager, the army says.


Israel called the air raids a "warning signal" after the 16-year-old Israeli was killed and four others were wounded when rockets fired by Hizbollah Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas hit a shopping centre in the northern border town of Shlomi.

It was the first fatality from Hizbollah shelling of northern Israel since the Jewish state withdrew its forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000 after a 22-year occupation under daily guerrilla attacks by Hizbollah forces.