ISRAELI air raids on Hizbullah targets in Lebanon heralded the first meeting of a five nation committee monitoring a US brokered ceasefire accord between Israel and the guerrilla group.
Israeli war planes blasted targets in eastern Lebanon's Syrian policed Bekaa Valley in two predawn raids, security sources said.
A few hours later, a meeting attended by representatives of the US, France, Israel, Syria and Lebanon, began in the south Lebanon village of Naqoura.
The village, north of the border with Israel and in the Jewish state's south Lebanon occupation zone, is the coastal headquarters of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
There was no report of casualties in the air attacks which followed the killing of one Israeli soldier and the wounding of four others in shelling by the pro Iranian guerrillas of their post in the Israeli held south Lebanon zone since Monday.
Hizbullah, waging a guerrilla war to oust Israeli troops from south Lebanon, have so far killed 17 Israelis this year.
The monitoring committee whose first meeting was designed to plan modes of operation, will deal with violations of an April 26th understanding that ended 17 days of fighting between Israel and Hizbullah guerrillas.
Some 200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the Israeli blitz, whose declared aim was to end Hizbullah Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel.
Under the US brokered understanding, Israeli forces and the guerrillas are banned from firing from or at civilian areas on either side of the border. But the understanding does not bar raids on Israeli troops in south Lebanon and gives both sides the right to self defence.
The US representative on the monitoring group, Mr David Greenlee, arrived in Naqoura by private helicopter from Cyprus while the remaining delegates arrived in UNIFIL helicopters.
Security sources said the Israeli jets fired rockets in two raids an hour apart into Hizbullah targets near the town of Baalbek, 15 km west of the Lebanon Syria border.