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Several
missiles went off in Northern Israel, the country's defense forces
spokesman said.
TEL
AVIV (Sputnik) – Three missiles, possibly fired from southern
Lebanon, exploded in Israel’s north, Israeli Defense Forces
(IDF) said Sunday.
IDF
A short while ago, sirens sounded in northern Israel. Initial report suggests 3 rockets hit northern Israel. Forces searching the area.
The
shelling comes after Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah group’s
activist Samir Kantar was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike
that targeted a residential building near the Syrian capital.
Earlier
in the day, a source in the Lebanese army told RIA Novosti
that unknown individuals fired three rockets from southern
Lebanon at Israel.
According
to him, after the incident the Israeli Air Force planes
were seen in the skies over southern Lebanon in the
vicinity of the al-Mansourieh and al-Kehaleh villages.
Kuntar
served nearly 30 years in an Israeli prison for murder
of four Israeli citizens and was released in 2008 as part
of a prisoner swap with Hezbollah
ISRAEL MILITARY FIRES ARTILLERY INTO LEBANON IN RESPONSE TO CROSS-BORDER ROCKETS
Israel’s
military said it fired artillery rounds into southern Lebanon on
Sunday in response to rockets fired earlier across the border that
struck inside Israel.
The firing comes one day after the killing of the veteran fighter of the Hezbollah resistance movement in Syria. The Israeli militants claimed that the artillery comes as a result of the three Katyusha rockets from Lebanon earlier on Sunday.
The Lebanese group and the Syrian state media said on Sunday that the airstrike killed Samir Qantar, a Hezbollah militant leader, in Damascus on Saturday evening.
The
Israeli army said in a statement that it has “responded” to the
Lebanese rocket with “targeted artillery fire.”
Lebanon’s
national news agency NNA reported that Israel fired nine rounds of
artillery at the south.
Jailed
in Israel for his part in a 1979 raid in Israel that killed four
people, Qantar, a Druze, was repatriated to Lebanon in 2008 in a
prisoner swap with Hezbollah, which he is then believed to have
joined.
Yaakov
Amidror, Israel’s former national security adviser, predicted
Hezbollah would seek to exact “small revenge” for Qantar’s
killing, but said Hezbollah, like Iran, was likely too busy fighting
in Syria to afford a new front with Israel.
“It
would not be in their interest, and if they did so, they would have a
big problem,” Amidror said, alluding to Israel’s threats to
respond to any major Hezbollah attack with strikes in Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s
official media said Qantar would be buried on Monday in a Shi’ite
cemetery in its main stronghold of Dahiya in the southern suburbs of
Beirut. The party opened a condolences hall to receive the public.
Israel
launched wars on Lebanon in 2000 and 2006. About 1,200 Lebanese, most
of them civilians were killed in the 33-Day War of 2006. On both
occasions, however, Hezbollah fighters defeated the Israeli military
and Tel Aviv was forced to retreat without achieving any of its
objectives.
In
September, the Lebanese army said it had discovered a rock-shape
Israeli espionage device in a district of the southern town of Bani
Hayan. The device was connected to four large electric batteries and
was equipped with a hidden camera and some transmission devices.
Israel
also violates Lebanon’s airspace on an almost daily basis through
sending reconnaissance drones, claiming the flights serve
surveillance purposes.
Lebanon’s
government, the Hezbollah resistance movement, and the UN Interim
Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, have repeatedly condemned the overflights,
saying they are in clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the
country’s sovereignty.
UN
Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the
2006 war, calls on Israel to respect Lebanon’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
Hezbollah
says Lebanon will not be part of Saudi coalition
18
December, 2015
Lebanese
resistance movement Hezbollah has opposed the country’s
participation in the so-called Islamic military coalition announced
by Saudi Arabia. Hezbollah says the idea behind the coalition
formation is suspicious, and assured that Lebanon is already fighting
terrorism in all its forms. Our correspondent Rahshan Saglam has more
from Beirut.
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al-
Manar TV
It’s
clear that the Zionist entity can’t bear to officially claim
responsibility for the strike which killed the Dean of the freed
detainees from the Israeli prisons, Samir Kuntar late on Saturday.
However, the Israeli media didn’t hesitate to praise the strike,
in an obvious admission that Tel Aviv had carried out the raid.
Hasan
Hijazi, the editor of the Israeli affairs at al-Manar, said that
Tel Aviv declined to officially comment on the strike in order to
avoid a harsh retaliation by the resistance, noting that the
Israeli eye now is on Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan
Nasrallah’s response.
"The
Israeli commentators said that Tel Aviv is will pass through days
os strain, waiting for the stance of (Sayyed) Nasrallah over the
nature of Hezbollah's retaliation."
“The
Israeli authorities are avoiding the direct claim of
responsibility, in a bid to give the other side (the resistance) a
chance to mull its retaliation choices and in order for this
retaliation to be deliberate and well-calculated,” Hijazi said
during a live coverage on al-Manar.
“According
to Israeli commentators, Israel now is denying any involvement
because the direct claim of responsibility would lead to strong
and justified retaliation (by the resistance).”
“According
to the Zionists, Kuntar represents the Lebanese, Palestinian and
Syrian struggle against Israel. He is well-recognized for his
participation in Nahariya operation in 1979. He is well known
because he was freed despite the 33-day Israeli war on Lebanon
which took place after the resistance captured two Israeli
soldiers and killed other eight. He is well recognized for his
alleged role in opening a new front in Golan against the Zionist
entity. Samir Kuntar represents the path of resistance.”
Israeli
Media ‘Praising’ Kuntar Assassination
“Israeli officials p  raised
the reported killing of Lebanese militant leader Samir Kuntar,”
Israeli daily, Jerusalem Post said on Sunday.
It
quoted Israeli Construction and Housing Minister Yoav Gallant as
talking to Israel Radio that "It is good that people like
Samir Qantar will not be part of our world."
Asked if Tel Aviv carried out the strike, Gallant said: "I am not confirming or denying anything to do with this matter." Other Israeli officials, including military spokesmen, declined comment.
Meanwhile
on Sunday, Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked welcomed the
assassination of Kuntar but did not claim credit for the air
strike.
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