Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said that an Israeli aircraft detonated the car bomb that killed two members of the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) in southern Lebanon last month, local Naharnet news website reported on Friday.

"Information received so far shows that there is a strong possibility that the detonator in the booby-trapped car was set off by an Israeli aircraft monitoring the car's movements via a camera mounted on a truck," Murr was quoted as saying.

It was "the first time in the past 30 years that Israel has carried out an operation at such a high-tech level," he said, adding "Nothing can provide protection in the face of this superior technique in terrorism and explosives."

Murr made the statements when briefing the cabinet on Thursday over the May 26 car bombing in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. Two Jihad members-- Mahmoud Mjzoub and his brother Nidal-- were killed in the massive blast.

Israel has denied any involvement in the incident.

The Lebanese government has decided to lodge a complaint to the U.N. Security Council about Israel's attacks on Lebanon, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi was quoted as saying following the meeting.

Last week, the Lebanese army announced that it had arrested Rafeh, 57, a retired police officer, for alleged involvement in the killings of the Mjzoub brothers.

The army said that Rafeh "had links to the Israeli intelligence services."

On Tuesday, the military said that Rafeh had confessed to killing the two Jihad members in addition to three other deadly attacks including the killings of two Hizbollah officials in 1999 and 2003 respectively and the slaying of the son of Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Lebanon-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in 2002.

Source: Xinhua