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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/world/middleeast/hezbollah-israel-airstrike.html
Hizbullah Hits Back at Israeli Army but Without Casualties
(New York Times) David M. Halbfinger - Hizbullah fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military post on the Lebanese border on Sunday in what it called payback for an Israeli airstrike a week earlier that killed two Lebanese operatives in Syria and a drone strike in Beirut that destroyed machinery to enable Hizbullah to produce high-grade rocket propellant for its precision-guided missiles. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel experienced no casualties - "not an injury, not even a scratch." Israel returned fire with attack helicopters and about 100 artillery shells. Hizbullah claimed that Israeli soldiers were in the vehicle its missile struck and that they were all killed or wounded. Lt.-Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli army spokesman, confirmed that one missile "penetrated" a military vehicle, but said no one was harmed. Israeli media reported Sunday that an Israeli army helicopter had feigned a medevac operation, apparently to lull Hizbullah into concluding that it had drawn blood in the missile strike, enough to stand down.