(MENAFN- QNA) Hezbollah fighters attacked an Israeli military convoy Wednesday in the occupied Shebaa Farms, in south Lebanon, killing four soldiers, in retaliation for Israel's recent airstrike in the Golan Heights, Lebanese English-language daily " The Daily Star" reported.
UNIFIL commander Maj. Gen. Luciano Portolano urged "maximum restraint" from all parties to prevent escalation on the Lebanese -Israeli frontier.
For her part, U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag urgently called on all parties "to refrain from any actions that could destabilize the situation further." "All parties are strongly urged to continue to abide by their obligations under Security Council resolution 1701," Kaag said of the resolution that put an end to the 2006 summer war between Lebanon and Israel.
Hezbollah claimed the attack on the Israeli military convoy in a statement.
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