The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in a Twitter post confirmed that three rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of northern Israel.
The IDF gave no details of who fired them. But two sources close to Israel’s arch-enemy Hezbollah told the AFP the Lebanese Shiite group had no link to the incident.
“A short while ago, three rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Galilee,” Israel’s army said in a statement. “According to protocol no sirens were sounded”.
There was no immediate comment from Beirut about the incident.
Israel fought a 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas, who have sway in southern Lebanon and advanced rockets. The border has been mostly quiet since then.
Small Palestinian factions in Lebanon have fired sporadically on Israel in the past.
A witness in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa said she heard three explosions shortly before the rocket salvo was reported.
No sirens warned of the launch, something the military said was “according to protocol” — an allusion to Israeli air defences that ignore rockets set to hit unpopulated areas.
Source : France 24 News
