Two Rockets from Eastern Lebanon Land in Hermel

Several rockets targeted on Monday the Bekaa town of Hermel, the state-run National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, two rockets fired from Lebanon’s Eastern Mountain range, on the Lebanese-Syrian border, landed on the residential area in Hermel.

However, security sources denied in comments to LBCI the report.

Syria-based rebel groups usually claim responsibility for such attacks, arguing that they come in retaliation to Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria.

Hizbullah said on Sunday that at least five of its fighters were killed along with "dozens" of gunmen in clashes that erupted in the town of Nabi Sbat in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria.

Lebanon's border with Syria is not officially defined and much of it is porous and unpatrolled, with local residents, smugglers and others moving freely across it.

Hizbullah maintains several military posts along inaccessible parts of the border, and it rarely gives official details on clashes with jihadists or other fighters.

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