Rockets Hit Town in Hermel, Shells Land in Akkar Villages
Rockets hit on Saturday a town in the Bekaa a day after the Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed an attack on nearby areas.
The state-run National News Agency reported that two rockets fired the eastern mountain range landed near Hermel public hospital.
Later the NNA reported that three rockets landed in al-Qaa village from Syrian territories.
No casualties were reported.
On Saturday evening, shells launched from the Syrian side of the border landed on the outskirts of the Akkar northern towns of Qashlaq, Wadi Hor, Hikr Janine and Amar al-Bikat, the state news agency said.
"Shells have also hit the outskirts of al-Noura and al-Fraidiss villages near the Grand River's edge," the NNA reported.
ISIL claimed on Friday responsibility for a rocket attack on the outskirts of the towns of al-Labweh and al-Nabi Othman.
The army said in a communique that three rockets landed in the area, saying that it deployed patrols in the areas.
Bekaa towns, with a majority of Shiite population, have repeatedly come under rocket attacks by either rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime or armed men supporting them.
The Syrian troops loyal to Assad also continue to carry out air raids on Arsal, a majority Sunni town, which is an escape route for rebels and smugglers.
In recent months, fighting has raged in and around several towns and villages inhabited by a community of some 15,000 Lebanese Shiites who have lived for decades on the Syrian side of a frontier that is not clearly demarcated in places and not fully controlled by border authorities. They are mostly Lebanese citizens, though some have dual citizenship or are Syrian.
Before Syria's uprising erupted two years ago, tens of thousands of Lebanese lived in Syria.
The Lebanese Shiite enclave on the Syrian side of the border is near the central city of Homs and across from Hermel, a predominantly Shiite region of northeastern Lebanon.
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