1.  Attacking the suburbs of Beirut for the second day, Israeli planes fired on a Syrian antiaircraft battery.

2.  Israeli commanders said that they had no interest in picking a fight with Syria and that the Syrian battery had opened fire on the Israeli gunships.

3.  The Syrian anti-aircraft battery was struck during a sortie on Beirut.

4.  Syrian anti-aircraft batteries opened fire at Israeli fighter bombers over central Lebanon on Friday without hitting their targets, security officials said.