KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel (AFP) – Nov – 21 An Israeli army position in the disputed Shebaa Farms border area came under heavy artillery attack from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. The artillery attack came as fighters from Hezbollah also launched an attack on the village of Ghajar where the majority of residents opted to take Israeli nationality after Israel captured the Golan Heights from  Syria in 1967.

The attack on the army post was confirmed by Lebanese police.Israel captured the small mountainous Shebaa Farms from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and is now claimed by Lebanon with Damascus’s approval.Hezbollah was largely responsible for driving Israeli troops from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation.