Israel Banned UNIFIL from Inspecting Site of Rocket Attack
Israel has reportedly banned U.N. peacekeepers from inspecting the site where rockets, allegedly fired by militants in Lebanon, landed in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona Wednesday.
Local media, citing U.N. and Lebanese security sources, said no rockets landed in northern Israel on Wednesday.
They said two rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel missed their target and fell in a field in the southern village of el-Mari, 2 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border.
A Lebanese Army patrol later on Wednesday defused three booby-trapped rockets that were set for launching from southern Lebanon towards Israel, an army communiqué said.
An Army sapper defused the rockets that would be destroyed in place, the communiqué added.
News reports, citing information obtained by UNIFIL, said Israeli radars only monitored the launching of two rockets from south Lebanon which are most likely those that fell in el-Mari.
The daily An Nahar quoted Lebanese security sources as saying that Israel did not allow UNIFIL to inspect or take pictures of the site where the rockets reportedly fell.