Hezbollah targeted Israel patrol

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview published Monday that his Lebanese Shiite group was behind a blast that targeted Israeli troops on the border between the two countries last month. "Yes, the explosion in the Shebaa Farms that Hezbollah has not claimed until now was the work of the resistance, which means the work of Hezbollah," Nasrallah told the Al-Safir daily. The March 14 explosion came after Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes inside Lebanon that were believed to have targeted its positions near Lebanon's border with Syria. "This was not the reply, but this was part of the reply," Nasrallah told Al-Safir. The message to Israel, he said, was "you hit a military target and the resistance responded by hitting a military target," according to AFP.