 JERUSALEM - The Israeli air force said it carried out an airstrike early Wednesday against a training base belonging to a Palestinian militant group in Lebanon, hours after a northern Israeli town was hit by rocket fire. The army said the base, located south of Beirut, belonged to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small militant group that has waged a decades long fight against the Jewish state.
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âThis is in response to the firing of projectile rockets last night toward Israeli communities,â the army said. It said it views such attacks with âextreme severityâ and holds Lebanon responsible.
Seven Katyusha rockets were fired at north Israel from southern Lebanon overnight Wednesday, Lebanese police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility.
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A spokesman in southern Lebanon for the Shiite radical Hezbollah movement, which controls the border between Lebanon and Israel, told AFP he knew nothing about the incidents.
Sultan Abu Aynaeyn, in charge of the Palestinian Fatah movement in Lebanon, strongly denied any implication by Palestinians in a statement to a local television station.
The Lebanese foreign ministry did not react to the new wave of violence amidst an ongoing political crisis.
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