An Arab woman was wounded in southern Lebanon on Sunday when a Katyusha rocket aimed at Israel landed short of its mark.
The rocket was fired from the area of Bint Jbeil, a town a mile from Israel and the site of a major battle of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and landed on an apartment building in the Lebanese border village of Hula. Hizbullah denies connection to the attack.
Two weeks ago, rockets were fired from Lebanon to Israel, the first time since 2009. The rockets, which landed in the western Galilee, caused property damage but no injuries. An Al-Qaida-affiliated terror group called the Abdullah Azzam Brigades initially issued a statement taking responsibility for those attacks on “the settlements of the Zionist enemy in northern Palestine,” but later retracted.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been deployed in Lebanon since 1978 to serve as an observing and peacekeeping force. Its almost 14,000 troops are charged with preventing violence and terrorism in the region.