Looks like someone wants Israel to get back into Lebanon.
Two 107 millimeter-diameter Katyusha rockets landed in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
At around 5:20 pm, residents of the northern town reported the sound of explosions. Rescue teams were dispatched to both locations where the rockets landed. It remains unclear who launched the rockets towards Israel.
One of the rockets hit a car in the town’s northern industrial area, and the other landed in the southern part of town.
IDF officials said that the rockets were apparently launched from an area very close to UN outposts in southern Lebanon.
Yeah, it’s so comforting, having those UN peacekeepers out there, isn’t it? They’re so—effective.
Hizbullah says it wasn’t them.
Hizbullah denied it was behind the launching of two Katyusha rockets at Kiryat Shmona Sunday afternoon, the organization’s TV station al-Manar reported.
The station also said that the IDF was currently firing mortar shells at the Shebaa Farms area in southern Lebanon.
Shyeah. Hizbullah is just the kind of group to be believed. But this time, they may only be lying about the rockets.
The Northern Command estimated that the rockets were launched by a Palestinian organization operating in southern Lebanon, but did not rule out the possibility that the rockets belonged to Hizbullah. However, other military source said the rockets were not launched by Hizbullah, but by Palestinian organizations.
Lebanese journalists also estimated that a Palestinian organization was behind the attack as part of a struggle taking place near the border between extremist organizations and the Lebanese military.
They indicated that the “Fatah al-Islam†organization has said that its goal was to fight “the Zionistsâ€.
Police sappers told Ynet the rockets launched were of a very primitive variety.
“During the Second Lebanon War, only a small number of these rockets were fired. Their range is short, so they were fired close to the fence,†police sources said.
The fact that there are so many terrorist groups that could have launched the rockets speaks so highly of the state of civilization in Lebanon. Say, how’s the disarmament of militias going there, folks? The one with the UNSC resolution behind it?
Shyeah.
But wait—the Lebanese army found another rocket set to go off in the same area. And they think they know who did it!
The Lebanese army discovered a rocket that was set to be launched Sunday on Israel and prevented it from being fired, shortly after three were launched and two landed in the Israel, Lebanon’s military said in a statement.
The army blamed the attack on “unknown elementsâ€, the statement said.
Okay, I couldn’t resist. Here’s the official IDF explanation:
The IDF believes that the rockets were launched by a Palestinian organization in a bid to bring to an escalation in the situation on the border, either as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians, or as part of the struggle between the Fatah al-Islam organization and the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon.
Or maybe it was a member of the Lebanese army with ties to Hizbullah. So many enemies from which to chooose….