Hezbollah is claiming responsibility for an attack Wednesday against an Israeli military convoy near the Israel-Lebanon border. After the attack — in which an anti-tank missile hit a vehicle, injuring four Israeli soldiers, a military source tells Reuters — Israel sent helicopters and fired at least 35 artillery shells into Lebanon, according to Lebanese security officials.
The attacks follow weeks of rising tensions in the Lebanon-Syria-Israel border area. Earlier Wednesday, Israeli jets hit Syrian military artillery posts, apparently in retaliation for Tuesday's Syrian rocket attack into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. An Israeli airstrike on Jan. 18 killed a Hezbollah commander and a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards; Iran is a primary sponsor of both Hezbollah and the Syrian government.
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