Israeli soldier killed in Hezbollah guerrilla attack

Shebaa Farms

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanese Hezbollah fighters launched an attack against an Israeli military outpost in the disputed Shebaa Farms area at the foot of the Golan Heights on Friday, killing one Israeli soldier.

Two other soldiers were injured in the attack.

Hezbollah has been fighting to wrest control of the area from Israel for Lebanon.

Israel, which captured the Golan Heights and the surrounding area during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, said it took the territory -- including the Shebaa Farms -- from Syria and will not address the issue with Lebanon.

Both Israel and the United Nations say that the fate of Shebaa Farms will be decided in Syrian-Israeli negotiations on the Golan.

Israel withdrew last June from land it had occupied in southern Lebanon, but the border in the Shebaa Farms area remains unsettled.

The Israeli withdrawal, a campaign promise of now-outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak, came last June after Syria dropped its demand that the Israelis also hand the area back to Lebanon.

CNN Beirut Bureau Chief Brent Sadler contributed to this report.

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