On 04 Jan 16, at 1510hrs, an IED targeted an Israeli patrol in Shebaa Farms. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack stating that the Martyr Leader Samir al-Quntar Unit blew up a large bomb against an Israeli armored patrol in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms, destroying a Humvee vehicle and inflicting casualties on those inside it adding that one of the targeted vehicles was carrying a senior Israeli officer. The statement indicated that the operation is in response to the assassination of Hizbullah top operative Samir al-Quntar, who was killed in an airstrike in Syria. http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/198587-hizbullah-claims-destroying-israeli-vehicle-in-shebaa-farms-with-bomb