Sgt. Elad Shneor, 19, of Ashdod (IDF Spokesman)

	Hizbullah films fatal attack Reuters

Israel warned Lebanon and Syria following Hizbullah's fatal missile attack on an IDF convoy in the disputed Shebaa Farms region on the Israeli side of the Lebanese border. A Sagger anti-tank missile killed Sgt. Elad Shneor, 19, of Ashdod and lightly wounded two other soldiers on Friday. It was the second known Israeli fatality since the May 24 withdrawal.

An IDF spokesman warned that the governments of Lebanon and Syria would be held accountable for the attacks. Knesset Member Avigdor Lieberman of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu Knesset faction said on Channel 2's Meet the Press Saturday night that the missile attack merited "a significant attack on Beirut's infrastructure." The US condemned the Hizbullah attack, while a UN spokesman criticized the attack and the Israeli shelling of Southern Lebanon that followed the incident.

A Hizbullah statement said that the attacked marked the anniversary of Israel's assassination of its former leader Abbas Musawi exactly ten years earlier.

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