Israeli fighter jets bombed Palestinian and Lebanese militant targets in Lebanon today after guerrillas fired rockets into Israel in the fiercest cross-border violence seen this year.
A fighter with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and a member of a Syrian-backed radical Palestinian group were killed in the Israeli raids, while attacks from Lebanon left two Israeli soldiers wounded.
Each side blamed the other for the tit-for-tat attacks on the border, which remains highly volatile six years after Israel ended its 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon in May 2000.
UN peacekeepers later said they had brokered a ceasefire, and calm appeared to have returned to the volatile area by early evening.
