President Sleiman meets Minister Fneish over latest Israeli strike

President Michel Sleiman met on Thursday with State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Fneish at the Baabda Palace.

Discussions reportedly tackled the latest Israeli strike on Hezbollah's positions.

Hezbollah said on Wednesday that Israel carried out an airstrike targeting one of its positions near the border with Syria earlier this week, vowing to retaliate.
     
The attack, which Israel has not acknowledged, is the Jewish state's first reported air attack inside Lebanese territory since the start of the Syrian conflict three years ago.
     
The airstrike which occurred Monday night caused material damage but no casualties, according to a statement issued by Hezbollah.
     
Israel has fired artillery across the border, and carried out similar airstrikes inside Syria targeting suspected weapons shipments believed to be bound from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
     
Hezbollah, allied to President Bashar Assad in Syria, has been battling alongside his troops in areas near the border and has lost at least several hundred fighters.
          
Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006 that ended in a stalemate. Israeli officials believe Hezbollah has restocked its arsenal with tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, some of which are capable of striking virtually anywhere in the Jewish state.



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