Israeli aircraft attack eastern Lebanon

BEIRUT - Israeli aircraft have fired several rockets at a target in a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said today.

It was not immediately clear what the Israeli aircraft were firing at in the village of Bodai.

An Israeli army spokesman said the army was checking the report.

Such an attack would be the first since a UN truce ended 34 days of fighting between Israeli forces and Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon.

At least 1,183 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis were killed in the war that erupted after Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.

- REUTERS