71.   Iran provides financial assistance to the Hezbollah, whose guerrillas are fighting Israeli occupation of a border strip in southern Lebanon.

72.   Israel has repeatedly urged Syria to rein in the Hezbollah, which spearheads attacks on Israeli occupation forces in a narrow border strip in southern Lebanon.

73.   Israeli troops occupy a border strip of land in southern Lebanon to stop cross-border attacks by anti-Israeli fighters.

74.   Iqlim at-Tuffah is north of the Israeli-occupied border strip in south Lebanon.

75.   Israel occupies a narrow border strip in southern Lebanon in a bid to prevent Hezbollah guerrilla rocket attacks across their common border.

76.   Israel occupies a narrow border strip inside southern Lebanon to protect northern Israel against attacks from guerrillas opposed to the Israeli occupation.

77.   Israeli artillery responded to the attack by pounding an area outside the village of Mashgara along the occupied border strip, without causing any casualties, Lebanese police said.

78.   According to military sources, the planned attack was mounted by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which spearheads anti-Israeli attacks in the occupied border strip.

79.   An AFP correspondent reported that they headed towards their home villages in the occupied border strip.

80.   But Lebanon, where Israel occupies a border strip in the south, said the world was misguided in condemning one particular aspect of violence in the Middle East.