An Israeli army officer walks through a burnt out area as he inspects the area where a Katyusha rocket fired from militants inside southern Lebanon landed.As the rocket fire from Gaza terrorists continues to pelt southern and central Israel, a new front appears to have opened Friday morning as a Katyusha rocket was fired on the northern tip of Israel, north of Kiryat Shmona.
The rocket landed in open territory in the upper Galillee. Apparently the IDF estimates it was fired by local terror groups supporting Hamas, and not by the Iran-proxy Hezbollah terror group, reports Walla!.
Residents of the region report having heard explosions, although no injuries or damage was reported from the rocket. IDF forces are searching the area to locate the point of contact and rule out further rocket attacks.
"One projectile hit an open space near Kfar Yuval, between Metula and Kiryat Shmona," a military spokeswoman told AFP, listing two towns near Israel's northern border. The IDF returned artillery fire later in the morning, targeting locations in Lebanon suspected of being the source of the rocket fire.
In a statement, the Lebanese army declared a total of three rockets were fired on Israel by "an unknown group" from the Marjayun-Hasbaya region of southern Lebanon, reports AFP.
The Lebanese army has deployed troops to patrol and search the area, where they "managed to find rocket launch pads, as well as two rockets ready for launching. A military expert arrived at the scene and dismantled the projectiles," according to the statement.
A Lebanese security source told AFP earlier that after the rockets, "the Israelis fired back, launching some 25 shells at the outskirts of Kfar Shuba," referring to a town by the border. "No one was hurt, the shelling hit the fields, not houses. The situation at the border is now calm, and one man has been detained by the security forces for questioning."
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Lebanon rocket fire draws Israeli artillery strike
