Rockets Fired From Lebanon Into Israel

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Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel 08 Jan 2009 06:38:59 GMT

Source: Reuters

JERUSALEM, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Three rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel on Thursday, slightly wounding two people and prompting the Jewish state to respond with artillery fire, officials said.

The rockets were the first fired from Lebanon since 2007, and occurred on the 13th day of the Jewish state's offensive in the Gaza Strip to the south.

It was not immediately clear who fired the rockets.

Palestinians fired rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel in June 2007, causing no casualties. During a 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon in 2006, the Jewish state came under frequent rocket attacks that caused casualties.

Micky Rosenfeld, a spokesman for Israeli police, said the rockets struck three different places in northern Israel's Galilee region. Lebanese security sources said between three and five rockets were fired from southern Lebanon.

An Israeli military spokesman said Israel mounted "a pinpoint response at the source of (the rocket) fire." A security source said Israel fired five artillery shells.

Israeli analysts have said the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group may try to get involved in Israel's battle against Hamas in Gaza. Hamas is also backed by Iran.

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Israeli army fires into Lebanon after rockets fall

JERUSALEM, (AFP) – The Israeli army fired into northern Lebanon on Thursday after rockets were fired at the Jewish state, an army spokeswoman told AFP.

"We carried out direct fire at the source of the rocket fire from Lebanon," she said.

The army fired five shells, a military source told AFP without clarifying the type of ordnance used.

Several rockets hit northern Israel from Lebanon early Thursday, lightly wounding two people, officials told AFP.

"Three rockets landed in Israel fired from Lebanon," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Two people were lightly wounded, he said, adding that police sappers and bomb disposal units were working on the scene.

The rockets fell around the area of the northern town of Nahariya, where residents were called to stay inside their homes, Israeli media reported.

The rockets fell a day after the chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Shiite militia with which Israel fought a 34-day war in 2006, warned that "all possibilities" were open against Israel amid its deadly offensive in Gaza.

The last time rockets from Lebanon in northern Israel was on June 17, 2007 slamming into the northern town of Kiryat Shmona causing minor damage and no injuries.

At the time, Hezbollah denied responsibility and Israel also said Hezbollah was not involved in the attack, blamed on an unnamed Palestinian organisation.

Following Thursday's strike, a a high ranking Lebanese security official confirmed to AFP that rockets have been fired from southern Lebanon into Israel.

A Hezbollah spokesman had "no immediate confirmation" on the subject.

The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, said it was investigating.

Hamas denied it was responsible.

"We cannot blame any Palestinian faction and we don't know who fired the rockets," Hamas spokesman in Lebanon, Raafat Morra, told AFP.

"Hamas is pursuing its combat inside Palestine and our principle is not to use any other Arab soil to respond to the occupation. This is our firm policy," he said.

Residents of the southern Lebanese village Tayer Harfa near the Israeli border told AFP that they heard loud explosions in the morning.

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Hezbollah launched rockets after al Queda's chief announced there would be repercussions for Israel.

[Pooky 3,786]

So, the moment the Israelis say they might consider a truce, the terrorists up the ante.

On a very simple level, it's clear to me that Hamas and its allies feel they have nothing to gain by calm returning to the area, so they will do anything to keep the Israeli military in action, focusing the world's attention on the region. They are perfectly willing to get their fellow Palestinians killed for no good reason.

So why are the terrorists so afraid of a cessation of hostilities? Palestinian elections? Are they that afraid that their fellow Palestinians are upset enough with their "government" of Gaza that they will not vote for them in the upcoming elections? Because it seems that the Palestinian administration on the West Bank, under Mahmoud Abbas, is doing just fine without trying to launching rockets indiscriminately into Israel.

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So, the moment the Israelis say they might consider a truce, the terrorists up the ante.

On a very simple level, it's clear to me that Hamas and its allies feel they have nothing to gain by calm returning to the area, so they will do anything to keep the Israeli military in action, focusing the world's attention on the region. They are perfectly willing to get their fellow Palestinians killed for no good reason.

So why are the terrorists so afraid of a cessation of hostilities? Palestinian elections? Are they that afraid that their fellow Palestinians are upset enough with their "government" of Gaza that they will not vote for them in the upcoming elections? Because it seems that the Palestinian administration on the West Bank, under Mahmoud Abbas, is doing just fine without trying to launching rockets indiscriminately into Israel.

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Savages.