Rockets hit northern Israel from Lebanon: military sources
Several rockets hit northern Israel from Lebanon early Thursday, lightly wounding two people, officials told AFP.
"Three rockets landed in Israel fired from Lebanon," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Two people were lightly wounded, he said, adding that police sappers and bomb disposal units were working on the scene.
The rockets fell around the area of the northern town of Nahariya, where residents were called to stay inside their homes, Israeli media reported.
The rockets fell a day after the chief of Lebanon”s Hezbollah, a Shiite militia with which Israel fought a 34-day war in 2006, warned that "all possibilities" were open against Israel amid its deadly offensive in Gaza.
The last time rockets from Lebanon in northern Israel was on June 17, 2007 slamming into the northern town of Kiryat Shmona causing minor damage and no injuries.
At the time, Hezbollah denied responsibility and Israel also said Hezbollah was not involved in the attack, blamed on an unnamed Palestinian organisation.
Following Thursday”s strike, a a high ranking Lebanese serity official confirmed to AFP that rockets have been fired from southern Lebanon into Israel.
A Hezbollah spokesman had "no immediate confirmation" on the subject.
The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, said it was investigating.
Residents of the southern Lebanese village Tayer Harfa near the Israeli border told AFP that they heard loud explosions in the morning.
Israel and Hezbollah militia fought a 34-day war in 2006, after guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite movement seized two Israeli soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid.
During the conflict, Hezbollah sent more than 4,000 rockets into northern Israel.
The war killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
Israel is currently in the 13th day of a massive offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah carried out its deadly raid in 2006 two weeks into Israel”s last major operation in Gaza, launched after Gaza militants seized another Israeli soldier in a raid near the Palestinian territory.
In his address on Wednesday, Nasrallah said: "We have to act as though all possibilities are real and open (against Israel) and we must always be ready for any eventuality."
His comment marked the first time he has spoken so openly on the possibility of a renewed conflict with Israel since the war in Gaza began on December 27.
Nasrallah, addressing tens of thousands of supporters via video link at his stronghold in Beirut”s suburbs on the occasion of Ashura, said that the 2006 conflict would be nothing compared to what awaits Israel if it opens a second front.
"I say to (Israeli Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert, the loser, the vanquished in Lebanon that “you cannot overcome Hamas or Hezbollah”," Nasrallah said. "Your 2006 war will be but a walk in the park compared to what we have prepared for you in the event of a new offensive.
"We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our brothers and sisters, our children, our loved ones for what we believe in," said Nasrallah, whose Shiite militant party is backed by Syria and Iran. "We will not abandon the fight or our weapons."