ISRAEL: Rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel

Record ID: 397342

  • Title: ISRAEL: Rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel
  • Date: 30th November 2011
  • Summary: GALILEE, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 29, 2011) (REUTERS) FIRE BLOWING FROM LOCATION WHERE ROCKETS HIT CLOSE OF FIRE CLOSE OF ROCKET THAT HIT BUILDING (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) FIRE-FIGHTER, SAYING: "We received a report about a fire. When we arrived to here; we found out that rockets hit the area that caused a fire." DAMAGES IN BUILDING REMAINS OF ROCKET INSIDE ROOM FIRE IN CHICK
  • Embargoed: 15th December 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Israel, Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVADV68H5OC9KA702R0DV81JTING
  • Story Text: Several rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel; and Jewish state returned fire across the border, military officials said.
    Several rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel on Tuesday (November 29), and the Jewish state returned fire across the border in response, military officials said.
    Two buildings in the western Galilee area were damaged, Israeli media said, but there were no reported casualties. Residents said they heard two explosions and that houses shook.
    An Israeli military spokesman said the rockets were the first fired since 2009 across a border where a 34-day war was fought in 2006 between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas based in Lebanon.
    "Several rockets hit the western Galilee. The Israeli army considers the incident severe and is targeting origins of fire," said a statement from the military spokesman's office.
    The Ynet news Web site said residents saw plumes of smoke where the rockets struck.
    The Israeli-Lebanese border has been largely quiet in recent years, though some have worried about a possible spill-over of tensions from a months-old revolt in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad and from a stiffening of Western sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
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