Middle East: Israeli Jets Strike Camp In Lebanon
Israeli jets have attacked what the army says is a Palestinian militant group’s training base in southern Lebanon early on Wednesday, hours after an Israeli border town was hit by rocket fire. The Israeli military says the raid was against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (FPLP-GC) whom it accuses of launching three Katiusha rockets against the Israeli city of Qiryat Shmona on Tuesday night. The FPLP-GC, a small Syrian-backed group, denied involvement in the rocket attacks which damaged several homes but caused no injuries.
The Israeli air strike was the deepest in Lebanon since June 2004 targeting the PFLP-GC guerrilla base at Naameh, a hilltop site some 7 kilometres south of Beirut.
In a statement the Israeli army said it considered the Lebanese government responsible for these attacks, for not having dismantled terrorist organisations operating in Lebanon.
The PFLP-GC commander in Lebanon, Anwar Raja, told the AP that two guerrillas were slightly wounded in the strike, which caused “limited” material damage and shattered the windows of nearby houses.
He denied that the PFLP-GC was responsible for the firing of Katyushas on northern Israel. Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and the mainstream Fatah Palestinian faction denied involvement in firing late Tuesday on Kiryat Shemona.
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