Israeli gunners on Friday bombarded some locations in southern Lebanon hours after a salvo of at least 35 rockets was unleashed from the south on Israel where at least three persons were wounded.
The Lebanese National News Agency said artillery shells fired by the Israeli Army crashed into locations close to the Palestinian Al-Rashidiya refugee camp, inflicting some damage.
Meanwhile, the international peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, said in a statement that it had been notified by the Israeli Army that its artillerymen would retaliate for yesterday’s attack.
The statement added that the UNIFIL commander Major General Aroldo Lazaro was holding contacts with the authorities in Israel and Lebanon to maintain calm in the border region.
The two sides do not desire war, the statement said. However, it affirmed that the situation remained critical in the area, where peacekeepers from various nation patrol a strip of land between Israel and Lebanon.
The Lebanese Army declared that its personnel found in Marjayoun plain a rocket launcher loaded with four unfired missiles. Disposal experts defused them.
The local visual media had shown a number of unleashed missiles planted in groves close to the coastal city Tyre.
Source: Kuwait News Agency