Cross-border rocket attack hits northern Israel from Lebanon

[News_Editor]

Cross-border rocket attack hits northern Israel from Lebanon

2011-11-29 21:54:39 GMT+7 (ICT)

GALILEE, ISRAEL (BNO NEWS) -- A series of rocket attacks originating from Lebanon struck northern Israel on early Tuesday morning, officials said, triggering quick retaliation. There were no reports of casualties.

Four Katyusha rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Western Galilee area of northern Israel. As a result, two buildings were damaged and one of the 122-millimeter (4.8 inch) rockets struck a gas tank. A fire broke out which burned for several hours, but there were no injuries.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) blamed Lebanon for the attack. "The IDF regards this incident as severe, and holds the Lebanese government and the Lebanese Army responsible for preventing any rocket fire at Israel," it said in a statement.

Israeli officials quickly determined that the rockets were fired into Israel from an area between the villages of Aita Shaab and Rmeish, about 2 kilometers (1.2 mile) from the border. In retaliation, four artillery shells were fired from Israel, but no damage or injuries were reported as they landed in fields.

The al-Qaeda affiliated militant group the Sheikh Abdullah Azzam Brigades later claimed responsibility for the attack. Members of the small group mostly live in Palestinian refugee camps in southern Lebanon and have limited and outdated arms, many of them leftover from the Lebanon civil war in the 1980s.

Two rocket launchers, believed to be used in the initial attack, were later found by the Lebanese Army, according to reports. Meanwhile, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFL) vowed to ensure peace, meeting with leaders from both the IDF and the Lebanese Army, as well as deploying extra troops and patrol teams.

"This is a serious incident in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701 and is clearly directed at undermining stability in the area," UNIFL stated. In 2009, a previous rocket attack was carried out in the same border area, where in 2006, a 34-day war was fought between Israel and Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas.

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[SAffer]

Attacked from all sides, always being blamed for responding... you gotta feel for the Israelis. They occupy a tiny strip of land in the middle east, tiny really... the Arabs have so much land, but can't stand that the Israelis outperform them on everything; democracy, technological innovations, agriculture, economics.

[Steely Dan]

Attacked from all sides, always being blamed for responding... you gotta feel for the Israelis. They occupy a tiny strip of land in the middle east, tiny really... the Arabs have so much land, but can't stand that the Israelis outperform them on everything; democracy, technological innovations, agriculture, economics.

Presuming we are all the same human race with the same mental capacity and potential you have to blame environmental factors - no prizes for guessing what these factors are.

P.S Here's a clue.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10913/pub_detail.asp

“I for one realize that Islam will never accept a non-Islamic state in lands once conquered in the name of Allah … Therefore I will no longer end my articles or essays with the phrase, ‘Victor Sharpe writes about Jewish history and the Arab-Israel conflict.’ Instead, I will state that, ‘Victor Sharpe writes about Jewish history and the Islamist-Israel conflict. Alas, that is what it is, what it always has been, and what it always will be.’”

Edited November 30, 2011 by Steely Dan