TEL AVIV—Israel fired artillery shells into southern Lebanon after militants there launched a rocket into northern Israel, the Israeli military said, opening a new front in current Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
The Israeli military said the rocket landed in an open area near a small kibbutz, causing no injuries. The military said that in response, it targeted the source of the launch and an unspecified infrastructure with artillery fire early Monday. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and no injuries were reported in Lebanon.
Israeli officials said they believed that a faction of Palestinian militants based in Lebanon launched the rocket, but couldn’t be certain. Israel says a number of Palestinian militant groups operate in southern Lebanon, where the powerful Lebanese militant and political group Hezbollah has tight control.
Ran Kochav, an Israeli military spokesman, said the rocket fire from Lebanon was likely related to flare up in conflict across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Palestinians protest at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa mosque.
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AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS
In recent weeks, Israeli police and Palestinians have clashed in Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, the compound around Al Aqsa Mosque, which Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary and Jews the Temple Mount.
In addition, Palestinian and Arab Israelis have carried out a string of terror attacks inside Israel, there were deadly clashes in the West Bank and Gaza-based militants fired rockets at…
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