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Rockets
fired at Israel from
Lebanon, drawing Israeli fire
14
July, 2014, 7:30pm EDT
(Reuters)
- Rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon on Monday,
drawing retaliatory artillery fire from Israeli forces, Lebanese
security officials and the Israeli army said, in the third such
rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday.
An
Israeli police spokeswoman said there was no immediate word of damage
or casualties from the rocket fire.
There
was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The
attacks from Lebanon have coincided with an Israeli offensive on the
Hamas-run Gaza Strip which Palestinian officials say has killed at
least 160 people.
Palestinian
groups have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel from Gaza during
the latest hostilities.
No
injuries have been reported as a result of the three incidents across
the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since Friday.
The
Lebanese national news agency said two rockets had been fired just
after midnight in the latest salvo from Lebanon.
Two
rockets fired from
Lebanon at Western Galilee
Code
Red siren sounds in Nahariya, Shlomi; IDF responds to rockets with
artillery fire. Incident marks third time rockets were launched from
Lebanon since Friday.
Ynet,
14
July, 2014
Code
Red sirens sounded in Nahariya, Shlomi and other communities in the
Western Galilee at 00:26 on Sunday, after two rockets were launched
toward Israeli territory, apparently from Lebanon. The rockets
exploded in open areas and there were no reports of injuries or
damage.
Local
residents said that the first explosion sounded immediately after the
siren, while the second explosion sounded approximately 50 seconds
later. The incident marks the third time in which rockets were
launched from Lebanon into Israel since Frida
The
IDF responded with artillery fire towards the sources of fire in the
Rashidiya refugee camp in south Lebanon.
It
is the second time in the span of 8 hours that a Code Red siren
sounded in Nahariya. Earlier Sunday, a false alarm was sounded in the
city due to rocket fire towards the area of Haifa.
Meanwhile,
Hamas officials in Lebanon commented on the rocket salvo on Israel
from Lebanon late on Saturday and said the group had no role in the
attack, and that it had nothing to do with a statement in the name of
its armed wing that claimed responsibility for it.
Three
rockets fired from Lebanon hit open areas near Nahariya in northern
Israel on Saturday evening. Israel responded with artillery fire.
There were no casualties.
Were
Hamas behind the attack in question, it would have marked its first
such military action across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier.
The
attacks from Lebanon coincided with an Israeli offensive on the
Hamas-run Gaza Strip that Palestinian officials say has killed at
least 160 people. Militants in Gaza have fired hundreds of rockets
into Israel during the latest hostilities.
A
UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said there had been no immediate
claim of responsibility for the attack from Lebanon and urged maximum
restraint. UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force, said it had "intensified
patrols across the area of operations to prevent any further
incidents".
Two
Hamas officials in Lebanon said the group was not behind the attack.
Asked
about a claim of responsibility issued in the name of the Izz el-Deen
al-Qassam Brigades - the Hamas armed wing - Hamas official Osama
Hamdan said: "We denied it and said Hamas had nothing to do with
this statement."
The
claim of responsibility had been circulated in a text message
received by journalists in Gaza, the way the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam
Brigades often makes such announcements.
A
Lebanese security official said investigators had yet to determine
who fired the rockets. The main Palestinian factions in Lebanon had
told the investigators they were not involved in the attack, the
official said.
In
its first statement since the eruption of the latest hostilities, the
powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah praised Hamas and Islamic Jihad and
said it backed the Palestinian "resistance in its goals and
steps".
The
Iranian-backed movement, which fought a month-long war with Israel in
2006, said the Palestinians had created "a balance of fear"
that would pave the way to a "new era" in the struggle with
Israel.
While
Hezbollah routinely states its readiness for a new confrontation with
Israel, analysts believe it is keen to avoid one for now as its
fighters aid President Bashar al-Assad's forces in their conflict
with insurgents in Syria
UNIFIL
urges calm on the
border
Rockets
fired at Israel from
Lebanon, drawing Israeli fire
14
July, 2014, 7:30pm EDT
(Reuters)
- Rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon on Monday,
drawing retaliatory artillery fire from Israeli forces, Lebanese
security officials and the Israeli army said, in the third such
rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday.
An
Israeli police spokeswoman said there was no immediate word of damage
or casualties from the rocket fire.
There
was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The
attacks from Lebanon have coincided with an Israeli offensive on the
Hamas-run Gaza Strip which Palestinian officials say has killed at
least 160 people.
Palestinian
groups have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel from Gaza during
the latest hostilities.
No
injuries have been reported as a result of the three incidents across
the Lebanese-Israeli frontier since Friday.
Two rockets fired from
Lebanon at Western Galilee
Code
Red siren sounds in Nahariya, Shlomi; IDF responds to rockets with
artillery fire. Incident marks third time rockets were launched from
Lebanon since Friday.
Ynet,
14
July, 2014
Code
Red sirens sounded in Nahariya, Shlomi and other communities in the
Western Galilee at 00:26 on Sunday, after two rockets were launched
toward Israeli territory, apparently from Lebanon. The rockets
exploded in open areas and there were no reports of injuries or
damage.
Local
residents said that the first explosion sounded immediately after the
siren, while the second explosion sounded approximately 50 seconds
later. The incident marks the third time in which rockets were
launched from Lebanon into Israel since Frida
The
IDF responded with artillery fire towards the sources of fire in the
Rashidiya refugee camp in south Lebanon.
It
is the second time in the span of 8 hours that a Code Red siren
sounded in Nahariya. Earlier Sunday, a false alarm was sounded in the
city due to rocket fire towards the area of Haifa.
Meanwhile,
Hamas officials in Lebanon commented on the rocket salvo on Israel
from Lebanon late on Saturday and said the group had no role in the
attack, and that it had nothing to do with a statement in the name of
its armed wing that claimed responsibility for it.
Three
rockets fired from Lebanon hit open areas near Nahariya in northern
Israel on Saturday evening. Israel responded with artillery fire.
There were no casualties.
Were
Hamas behind the attack in question, it would have marked its first
such military action across the Lebanese-Israeli frontier.
The
attacks from Lebanon coincided with an Israeli offensive on the
Hamas-run Gaza Strip that Palestinian officials say has killed at
least 160 people. Militants in Gaza have fired hundreds of rockets
into Israel during the latest hostilities.
A
UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon said there had been no immediate
claim of responsibility for the attack from Lebanon and urged maximum
restraint. UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force, said it had "intensified
patrols across the area of operations to prevent any further
incidents".
Two
Hamas officials in Lebanon said the group was not behind the attack.
Asked
about a claim of responsibility issued in the name of the Izz el-Deen
al-Qassam Brigades - the Hamas armed wing - Hamas official Osama
Hamdan said: "We denied it and said Hamas had nothing to do with
this statement."
The
claim of responsibility had been circulated in a text message
received by journalists in Gaza, the way the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam
Brigades often makes such announcements.
A
Lebanese security official said investigators had yet to determine
who fired the rockets. The main Palestinian factions in Lebanon had
told the investigators they were not involved in the attack, the
official said.
In
its first statement since the eruption of the latest hostilities, the
powerful Lebanese group Hezbollah praised Hamas and Islamic Jihad and
said it backed the Palestinian "resistance in its goals and
steps".
The
Iranian-backed movement, which fought a month-long war with Israel in
2006, said the Palestinians had created "a balance of fear"
that would pave the way to a "new era" in the struggle with
Israel.
While
Hezbollah routinely states its readiness for a new confrontation with
Israel, analysts believe it is keen to avoid one for now as its
fighters aid President Bashar al-Assad's forces in their conflict
with insurgents in Syria
UNIFIL
urges calm on the
border
14
July, 2014
TYRE,
Lebanon: U.N. peacekeepers
urged the Lebanese and Israeli militaries Sunday to exercise “maximum
self-restraint” and cooperate with UNIFIL to
maintain calm on the border hours before rockets were fired from
Lebanese territory into Israel, raising tensions between the two
countries.
The U.N.
Interim Force in Lebanon described
the firing of rockets into Israel as
“a grave violation” of Resolution 1701 that ended the 2006
Israeli war on Lebanon.
Two
rockets fired from south Lebanon struck northern Israel Sunday night,
triggering Israeli retaliatory artillery fire on the outskirts of the
Lebanese village of Rashidiya, Lebanese security sources said. No
casualties were reported.
Three
rockets had been fired from the same area a day earlier.
On
Friday three other rockets were also fired toward Israel from the
village of Mari in Hasbaya.
Acting
Force commander Brig.
Gen. Tarundeep Kumar immediately
established contact with senior commanders of the Lebanese and
Israeli armies and urged them “to exercise maximum restraint, to
cooperate with UNIFIL in order to prevent further escalation,”
according to a UNIFIL statement.
Efforts
to locate the launch pads of rockets fired at northern Israel
Saturday turned out to be an arduous task with the Lebanese Army only
discovering them Sunday afternoon, security sources told The Daily
Star.
The
sources said the Army found the launch pads in a banana orchard in
the valley of Ras al-Ain, 3 kilometers away from the Palestinian
refugee camp of Rashidieh in Tyre.
Lebanese
troops also found an unexploded bomb that was taken from the area by
a military expert, the National
News Agency reported.
The
UNIFIL statement said the peacekeeping force, in coordination with
the Lebanese Army, is maintaining enhanced operational presence on
the ground, and has intensified patrols across the area of operations
to prevent any further incidents.
“The
parties have reaffirmed their commitment to the cessation of
hostilities and are fully cooperating with UNIFIL in efforts to
prevent any further incidents along the Blue Line,” the statement
said.
UNIFIL
explained that the situation in the area was calmer, adding that it
has launched an investigation into the incident “that amounted to a
grave violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 and
endangered human lives.”
Sirens
sounded across the Israeli settlement of Nahariya, 12 kilometers from
the Lebanese border, after the rockets were fired from the valley of
Qulayleh in the Tyre region.
Israel
swiftly responded with artillery fire on Zebqin and Qulayleh in the
Tyre region. The area houses two Palestinian refugee camps: Bass and
Rashidieh.
Mariam
Atallah, a woman from Qulayleh, criticized the random firing of
rockets into Israel. “We are not against fighting Israel. But the
firing of rockets should be controlled with the resistance
[Hezbollah] and the Lebanese Army. All of us are with Palestine and
Gaza,” she said.
But
farmer Mustafa Hammoud from
the village of Debbine disagreed. “Let rockets be fired toward the
positions of the usurper Israelis wherever they are found and let
them be burned all of them. Israel is an enemy that understands only
the language of fire. We have tried the [Israeli] aggression. Long
live Gaza.”
There
has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket attack
and Hamas issued a statement denying that its armed wing, the
Ezzeddine al-Qassam Brigades, carried out Saturday’s attack.
The
Israeli military said that two rockets fired from Lebanon hit
northern Israel late Saturday. No casualties were reported.
Friday,
a member of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya fired rockets at Israel, sources
told The Daily Star. They said the man acted of his own volition in
solidarity with the people of Gaza against
the ongoing Israeli offensive.
Friday’s
attack drew Israeli retaliatory artillery shelling of the Lebanese
village of Kfar Shuba and heightened tensions on the generally calm
border between the two countries
Hezbollah
battles Syria
rebels, four dead
BAALBEK,
Lebanon: Clashes between Syrian rebels and Hezbollah on the Lebanese
border have killed at least four fighters, a security official said
Sunday.
13
July, 2014
BAALBEK,
Lebanon: Clashes between Syrian rebels and Hezbollah on the
Lebanese border have killed at least four fighters, a security
official said Sunday.
The
fighting erupted Saturday in an undemarcated area of the frontier
between Qalamoun and Arsal, the Lebanese official told AFP,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
“A Hezbollah fighter
was killed and 12 were wounded Saturday night,” he said. “The
fighting intensified Sunday evening with three Syrian fighters killed
and 10 wounded.”
The
long border is often used by smugglers, refugees and fighters.
Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said:
“It appears Hezbollah launched the attack in a bid to finish off
the pockets of rebel resistance.”
Arsal
and the area around it are largely Sunni, and locals sympathize with
the Sunni-led uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In
April, Syrian forces backed by allied fighters from Hezbollah retook
control of most of the Qalamoun region.
But
Syrian activists say hundreds of opposition fighters have taken
refuge in the caves and hills in the border area, using it as a rear
base from which to launch attacks inside Syria.
Last
month, Lebanese Army forces carried out raids in the area targeting
militants with ties to “terrorist groups”, an army statement said
at the time.
From RT
Israel
steps up military offensive in Gaza LIVE UPDATES
14
July, 2014
TYRE,
Lebanon: U.N. peacekeepers
urged the Lebanese and Israeli militaries Sunday to exercise “maximum
self-restraint” and cooperate with UNIFIL to
maintain calm on the border hours before rockets were fired from
Lebanese territory into Israel, raising tensions between the two
countries.
The U.N.
Interim Force in Lebanon described
the firing of rockets into Israel as
“a grave violation” of Resolution 1701 that ended the 2006
Israeli war on Lebanon.
Two
rockets fired from south Lebanon struck northern Israel Sunday night,
triggering Israeli retaliatory artillery fire on the outskirts of the
Lebanese village of Rashidiya, Lebanese security sources said. No
casualties were reported.
Three
rockets had been fired from the same area a day earlier.
On
Friday three other rockets were also fired toward Israel from the
village of Mari in Hasbaya.
Acting
Force commander Brig.
Gen. Tarundeep Kumar immediately
established contact with senior commanders of the Lebanese and
Israeli armies and urged them “to exercise maximum restraint, to
cooperate with UNIFIL in order to prevent further escalation,”
according to a UNIFIL statement.
Efforts
to locate the launch pads of rockets fired at northern Israel
Saturday turned out to be an arduous task with the Lebanese Army only
discovering them Sunday afternoon, security sources told The Daily
Star.
The
sources said the Army found the launch pads in a banana orchard in
the valley of Ras al-Ain, 3 kilometers away from the Palestinian
refugee camp of Rashidieh in Tyre.
Lebanese
troops also found an unexploded bomb that was taken from the area by
a military expert, the National
News Agency reported.
The
UNIFIL statement said the peacekeeping force, in coordination with
the Lebanese Army, is maintaining enhanced operational presence on
the ground, and has intensified patrols across the area of operations
to prevent any further incidents.
“The
parties have reaffirmed their commitment to the cessation of
hostilities and are fully cooperating with UNIFIL in efforts to
prevent any further incidents along the Blue Line,” the statement
said.
UNIFIL
explained that the situation in the area was calmer, adding that it
has launched an investigation into the incident “that amounted to a
grave violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 and
endangered human lives.”
Sirens
sounded across the Israeli settlement of Nahariya, 12 kilometers from
the Lebanese border, after the rockets were fired from the valley of
Qulayleh in the Tyre region.
Israel
swiftly responded with artillery fire on Zebqin and Qulayleh in the
Tyre region. The area houses two Palestinian refugee camps: Bass and
Rashidieh.
Mariam
Atallah, a woman from Qulayleh, criticized the random firing of
rockets into Israel. “We are not against fighting Israel. But the
firing of rockets should be controlled with the resistance
[Hezbollah] and the Lebanese Army. All of us are with Palestine and
Gaza,” she said.
But
farmer Mustafa Hammoud from
the village of Debbine disagreed. “Let rockets be fired toward the
positions of the usurper Israelis wherever they are found and let
them be burned all of them. Israel is an enemy that understands only
the language of fire. We have tried the [Israeli] aggression. Long
live Gaza.”
There
has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket attack
and Hamas issued a statement denying that its armed wing, the
Ezzeddine al-Qassam Brigades, carried out Saturday’s attack.
The
Israeli military said that two rockets fired from Lebanon hit
northern Israel late Saturday. No casualties were reported.
Friday,
a member of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya fired rockets at Israel, sources
told The Daily Star. They said the man acted of his own volition in
solidarity with the people of Gaza against
the ongoing Israeli offensive.
Friday’s
attack drew Israeli retaliatory artillery shelling of the Lebanese
village of Kfar Shuba and heightened tensions on the generally calm
border between the two countries
Hezbollah
battles Syria
rebels, four dead
BAALBEK,
Lebanon: Clashes between Syrian rebels and Hezbollah on the Lebanese
border have killed at least four fighters, a security official said
Sunday.
13
July, 2014
BAALBEK,
Lebanon: Clashes between Syrian rebels and Hezbollah on the
Lebanese border have killed at least four fighters, a security
official said Sunday.
The
fighting erupted Saturday in an undemarcated area of the frontier
between Qalamoun and Arsal, the Lebanese official told AFP,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
“A Hezbollah fighter
was killed and 12 were wounded Saturday night,” he said. “The
fighting intensified Sunday evening with three Syrian fighters killed
and 10 wounded.”
The
long border is often used by smugglers, refugees and fighters.
Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said:
“It appears Hezbollah launched the attack in a bid to finish off
the pockets of rebel resistance.”
Arsal
and the area around it are largely Sunni, and locals sympathize with
the Sunni-led uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
In
April, Syrian forces backed by allied fighters from Hezbollah retook
control of most of the Qalamoun region.
But
Syrian activists say hundreds of opposition fighters have taken
refuge in the caves and hills in the border area, using it as a rear
base from which to launch attacks inside Syria.
Last
month, Lebanese Army forces carried out raids in the area targeting
militants with ties to “terrorist groups”, an army statement said
at the time.
From RT
Israel
steps up military offensive in Gaza LIVE UPDATES
Fierce rocket fire exchange is continuing between Israeli armed forces and Hamas, which has claimed the lives of more than 150 Palestinians. Israel is bracing itself for a “ground offensive,” calling up 40,000 army reservists.
Sunday,
July 13
22:28
GMT:
IDF
fired artillery into Lebanon after two rockets hit Israeli territory,
Reuters quoted Lebanese security sources as saying. The rockets came
from the south of Lebanon and were the third such attack since
Friday.
No
casualties or damage were reported on the Israeli side, Israeli
police spokeswoman said.
20:32
GMT:
Israel
Defense Forces says it has fired artillery fire into Syria after a
rocket hit Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday evening causing
no casualties.
The rocket fell on open ground and is thought to
have been fired intentionally, IDF said, adding that their hits were
confirmed.
12:13 GMT:
19:29 GMT:
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed international calls for a
ceasefire while defending his country's offensive in Gaza during
appearances on US television on Sunday, reports Reuters. He urged
Americans to imagine that their cities from the East Coast to
Colorado were under threat of rocket attack, with only 60 to 90
seconds to reach a bomb shelter. “That's
what we're experiencing right now, as we speak,”
he told CBS' 'Face the Nation' program.
Netanyahu
refused to discuss a ceasefire or give a timeline for Israel's
operation in Gaza. When asked if a ground invasion was imminent, he
said his country would use any means necessary to accomplish its goal
of degrading Hamas' rocket-launching capability in order to restore
security for Israeli civilians.
"Whether
we're at the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning I'm not
going to tell you that right now - because we face a very, very
brutal terrorist enemy,"
he said on 'Fox News Sunday.
11:04
GMT:
Thousands
of Palestinians and foreign nationals fled their homes in the Gaza
Strip on Sunday in a reaction to Israel’s appeal to evacuate,
Reuters reports. "Those
who fail to comply with the instructions will endanger their lives
and the lives of their families. Beware," read
a leaflet dropped by the Israeli military in northern Gaza - home to
around 100,000 people - ahead of another military campaign. However,
the Gaza Interior Ministry, said the Israeli warning
was "psychological
warfare" in
a statement on Hamas radio, and called on people to return to their
homes and stay in.
10:33
GMT:
French
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Sunday said that securing a
ceasefire for the Gaza Strip and preventing an escalation of the
latest outbreak of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians
was top priority for France.
"In
Gaza and Israel the absolute priority is a ceasefire," Fabius
told reporters ahead of a side discussion on the latest outbreak of
hostilities in Gaza with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British
Foreign Secretary William Hague and German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
"In
this context of a dangerous escalation, France asks for a return to
the 2012 ceasefire," he
added. (Reuters)
09:40 GMT:
The
Israeli military has told all residents in the North of the Gaza
Strip to evacuate their homes following the IDF’s morning raid on a
missile launch site.
06:23 GMT:
Several
hundred left-wing activists in Tel Aviv, rallying against the Israeli
operation in Gaza on Saturday night, were attacked by a group of
several dozen rightists, Haaretz reports.
The attack took
place when the rally participants started to move in the direction of
shelters, after hearing rocket alert sirens.
Eyewitnesses
say the assailants used clubs, while police did nothing to stop the
violence. One of the protesters was taken to hospital. No one was
arrested.
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