Friday 11 September 2009

Calm Prevails after Israel Bombs 15 Artillery Shells on Al-Qlaileh


Calm Prevails after Israel Bombs 15 Artillery Shells on Al-Qlaileh
Hanan Awarekeh

11/09/2009 Two Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into Occupied Palestine on Friday prompting retaliatory fire across the border.

Settlers of northern occupied territories said they heard explosions but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. "Debris from at least one Katyusha rocket fired from south Lebanon were found in the area of the city of Nahariya and Kibbutz Gesher Aziv," an Israeli police official told AFP.

The Israeli occupation army spokesperson said that Israel "views these incidents as very severe, and we hold the government of Lebanon responsible."

Israeli public radio said the Israeli armed forces responded with artillery fire against the Lebanese village from which the rockets were fired. Channel 10 reported that an electric tower was struck by one of the rockets.

Al-Manar correspondent in the South said that 15 Israeli artillery shells hit the southern village of Al-Qlaileh adding that the calm was prevailing the region though the ambulances rushed to the village from the port city of Tyre, nine kilometers away.

No group has claimed responsibility for the rockets attack fired into the occupied territories.

In such former incidents, investigations revealed the extremist groups were behind those attacks.

Israel warned last month that the Lebanese government as a whole would be blamed for any attack from its territory if Hezbollah was part of the new government to be formed after June elections.

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