Gaza, Jan 28 (IANS): The Islamic Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) Wednesday hailed the attack of Hezbollah on an Israeli army patrol on the borders between northern Israel and south Lebanon.

Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas movement's spokesman in Gaza, said in an emailed press statement that Hezbollah has the right to respond to the Israeli occupation's assaults and attacks, mainly the last one, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Lebanese Daily Star website earlier reported that Hezbollah fighters attacked an Israeli military convoy in the occupied Shebaa Farms, in south Lebanon, killing four soldiers in a clear response to a recent Israeli airstrike.

The Gaza-based Islamic Jihad's armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, also said in an emailed leaflet that it hailed the armed attack on an Israeli army patrol near Shebaa Farms in south Lebanon.

The Palestinian Left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also said in an emailed press statement that it welcomed "the heroic armed attack of Hezbollah fighters against the Israeli army".

Spokesman of the pro-Hamas Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) Khaled el-Azbat said in an emailed press statement that his group welcomed the attack in southern Lebanon.

"Any resistance action carried out against the Israeli occupation forces whether in south Lebanon or in any occupied part of the Arab and Palestinian lands, is certainly welcome," he said.