From Syria with Love?
Coordinated rocket attacks draw Israeli
airstrikes south of Beirut
Steve Schippert
At least seven katyusha rockets and multiple mortars were
fired into three towns in Israel from Lebanon in the
Wednesday overnight. One town in the far northeastern corner
of Israel, Kiryat Shmona, was believed to have been targeted
by Hezbollah, while the northwestern town of Shlomi was
believed to have been targeted by the PFLP (Palestinian Front
for the Liberation of Palestine). Just a few miles west of
Shlomi, explosions were also heard in the coastal city of
Nahariya. Meanwhile, to the south in Gaza,
the IDF began enforcing the newly mapped out ‘no-go zone’ in
northern Gaza Strip after dropping leaflets warning
Palestinians of the precise areas forbidden.
The Israeli
Army quickly blamed Hezbollah for the northeastern rocket
attack where two civilians were treated after two rockets
struck an apartment building shortly before midnight. In the
west along the Mediterranean, Israel identified the PFLP as
the attackers and
carried out airstrikes on their fortified tunnel system dug
into the mountains overlooking the sea near the southern
Lebanon town of Naameh, just five miles south of Beirut.
Israel quickly demanded that Lebanon take both
responsibility for and control of what happens within its own
borders with regards to terror attacks from southern Lebanon.
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