Syria not a target - Israel
2006-07-18 19:38
Jerusalem - Israel's army said on Tuesday
Hezbollah was smuggling weapons
from Syria, but added it did not regard Syria as a target for
attack.
"In the last few days, the smuggling of weapons from Syria
to Lebanon has continued," Major-General Gadi Eisenkot of the
Israeli army command told a news conference.
"We don't see Syria or the Lebanese army as a target, but at
the same time we see the smuggling of weapons from Syria to
Lebanon to be used in attacks against Israeli civilians."
Eisenkot said several trucks carrying weapons that had
entered Lebanon from Syria had been destroyed by Israeli
aircraft on Lebanese territory.
The Israeli army has said it was a Syrian rocket that killed
eight Israelis in the northern city of Haifa on Sunday.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for that attack.
"The (army) is using enormous force against Hezbollah and we
have hurt it...but the organisation has many more rockets,"
Eisenkot said.
"They are still capable of firing rockets at Israel."
- Reuters