 The recent calm along the Lebanese-Israeli border was broken yesterday when a rocket fired from Lebanon hit Margaliot, a northern Israeli community. The rocket, which hit a chicken coop, did not cause any casualties according to Israeli security sources.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora warned that Israel might be "searching for a reason to do something," and said that Lebanon will not be "driven into a situation that poses a threat to the country."
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Hizbullah denied any involvement in the incident. The group's spokesman Hussein Nabulsi said: "Hizbullah is not responsible for this. We don't know who fired the rocket."
Both Lebanese and Israeli security sources said they suspect the rockets were fired by a Palestinian group and not Hizbullah.
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Palestinian militant groups have been dormant on the Lebanese front since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, with the resistance work strictly being carried out by Hizbullah. But Palestinian groups have vowed revenge for Israel's killing of five Palestinians in the West Bank town of Tulkarem on Wednesday, with three of them being civilians unarmed teenagers, and not fighters. Fatah commander in Lebanon, Brigadier General Sultan Abu al-Ainayn, told The Daily Star it was not acceptable anymore that Palestinians are accused of every security breach in Lebanon.
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He said: "It does not serve our case as Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to fire a mortar toward Israel." |