1 Dead as Rockets Land on Bekaa Towns
One person was killed and at least two others injured on Saturday after several rockets fired from the eastern mountain range landed on Shiite towns in the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese army and the state-run National News Agency said.
A boy named Abbas Saleh Saifeddine died in al-Nabi Othman while two others were wounded in al-Labweh, NNA and media reports said.
The army said a third person was wounded in the attack that involved four rockets.
A military expert inspected the areas where the rockets landed to determine their source, it said in a communique.
Al-Jadeed TV quoted al-Labweh's municipal chief as saying that the rockets were fired from the outskirts of the Sunni town of Arsal, whose residents support the uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Al-Labweh's residents blocked the road that leads from their town to Arsal to protest the attack.
The al-Qaida-inspired groups al-Nusra Front in Lebanon and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant usually claim responsibility for such attacks, arguing that they come in retaliation to Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria.
ISIL said it was responsible for Saturday's attack, claiming to have fired five Katyusha rockets.
Al-Labweh and al-Nabi Othman are Shiite towns whose residents are supporters of Hizbullah, which is fighting alongside troops loyal to Assad against the majority Sunni rebels.
Three Grad rockets landed on Thursday on the hills of the Bekaa town of Nabi Sheet, state-run National News Agency reported.
The rockets which hit the al-Arid neighborhood did not cause any casualties, NNA said.
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