The Lebanese army on Monday opened fire on Israeli warplanes as they flew over the south of the country in violation of Lebanon's airspace, police said. "The army's anti-aircraft units fired at four Israeli jets overflying the south on two occasions between 9:00 am and 11:00 am (0700 and 0900 GMT)," a police official told AFP.
He said none of the aircraft was hit.
Meanwhile, a grenade blast damaged a car belonging to the wife of the assistant military prosecutor and set another on fire in Beirut but caused no injuries, security sources said. The early Monday blast was caused by a hand grenade that was thrown by unknown attackers on a street in Beirut's Wata Moseitbeh neighborhood.
According to the AP, security officials said a car belonging to the wife of Judge Ahmed Oueidat, assistant to the military prosecutor, was damaged and its windows blown off. Another car parked next to it belonging to the sister of Maj. Gen. Mustafa Hamdan's wife was also destroyed.
Hamdan, who was former head of Lebanon's Presidential Guards Brigade, has been in detention since 2005 in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination.
The general is in Roumieh prison along with three other pro-Syrian security officers on the recommendation of a U.N. investigation into the February 2005 bombing in Beirut that killed Hariri and 22 others.
