5 May 2000

✸Katyushas on Kiryat Shmona: the fiercest salvo in a year

South Lebanon#Israel–Lebanon #Resistance against Israel

AttackerHezbollah➜TargetIsrael / IDF

On 5 May 2000 the Islamic Resistance fired the fiercest Katyusha salvos in a year at Kiryat Shmona in reply to the killing of two women by Israeli shelling; an Israeli soldier was killed and 16 settlers wounded.

▲ Israeli shelling kills two Lebanese women Strikes on the Bsalim power station: Lebanon in the dark three weeks before the withdrawal ▼

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Israeli shelling kills two Lebanese women

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Strikes on the Bsalim power station: Lebanon in the dark three weeks before the withdrawal

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