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| Lebanon, Israel exchange rocket fire |
| 2009-10-27 |
| A KATYUSHA-TYPE rocket fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel today without causing any casualties, prompting Israel to retaliate with a salvo of missiles, sources on both sides said. The rocket fired from Lebanon hit open ground east of the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona and started a fire, which did not cause any serious damage, they said. Witnesses in Kiryat Shmona said Israeli artillery retaliated by firing on targets in southern Lebanon. Asked to comment, an Israeli military source would neither confirm nor deny that. Following the incident, a security source in Lebanon said eight rockets fired from Israeli hit near the border village of Hula. There were no immediate reports of casualties. UN peacekeeping troops and the Lebanese army cut off the road leading to Hula and were searching the area, an AFP correspondent said. Residents of Hula said they heard a rocket fired from the brush outside the village shortly before the rockets hit the area. This was the fourth rocket attack this year from Lebanon towards Israel and comes as cross-border tensions have been increasing. On September 11, at least two rockets fired from the southern village of al-Qlaileh slammed into Israel without causing casualties but triggering retaliatory artillery fire. A group linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, according to US monitoring group SITE Intelligence. In February, Israeli artillery bombarded al-Qlaileh in response to a rocket attack. There were no casualties in Lebanon, while a few Israelis were lightly wounded. In January, during Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, four rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel, wounding two women. Shiite movement Hezbollah, which fought a devastating 34-day war with Israel in 2006, has its stronghold in south Lebanon, where a rocket exploded on October 12 in the home of activist Abdel Nasser Issa in Tayr Felsay village. The Israeli army released film it said showed rockets being removed from Mr Issa's home following the explosion, but Hezbollah said the pictures were of metal shutters at the location where explosion happened. The Israeli army said the blast "proves again the presence of weapons forbidden in southern Lebanon" under UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war. The 34-day war killed more than 1200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers. Resolution 1701 called for the removal of weapons in southern Lebanon from the hands of everyone except the Lebanese army and other state security forces. Israel has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of rearming, and an Israeli army spokesman claimed on Tuesday night the group had "dozens of arms caches containing hundreds of rockets". Following the October 12 incident, Israeli President Shimon Peres accused Hezbollah of having turned Lebanon into a powderkeg. "It's not Israel that is endangering Lebanon, but rather Hezbollah, just as Hamas is endangering the Palestinians. "There is no reason for Israel not to make peace with Lebanon," he said, adding that Israel's northern neighbour "could be, with the help of this peace, the Switzerland of the Middle East. But it's clear to everyone who is preventing this" . |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #4 HAARETZ/TOPIX > IRAN: WORLD CAN'T STOP OUR ATOMIC PROGRAM AS LONG AS ISRAEL HAS NUKES. AKA "We'll give up ours after Netanyahu = Israel gives up his". * Also from TOPIX > SYRIAN GOLAN HEIGHTS: CAN INTERNATIONAL STOP FORESTALL A NEW [Syrian[ INTIFADA? Iff the Huzzies Hizzies Hezzies Hissies in Lebanon, + Hamas in Gaza, can do agz ISRAEL, why not SYRIAN PATRIOTS as per the GOLAN??? SAME > PRESSURE GROWS IN SYRIA TO TAKE BACK THE GOLAN HEIGHTS BY FORCE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-27 22:02 |
| #3 Its nice to see neighbors exchanging greetings. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-10-27 21:47 |
| #2 See how evil the Joooos are? Some innocent kid in Lebanon accidentally fired off a rocket he had built for a science fair project, and it accidentally landed in Israel, and didn't even hurt anybody. Yet the Joooos fired a bunch of rockets back at Lebanon. Who hadn't even done anything. /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-10-27 17:27 |
| #1 How're those UN Resolutions workin' out for ya, guys? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-10-27 17:02 |