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Confusion over rockets launched from Lebanon into Israel
Azerbaijan News.Net
Thursday 8th January, 2009
At least three rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday.
On the 13th day of the Israeli military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the rockets were shot into the town of Nahariya, south of the Lebanese border.
The Israeli army says it returned artillary fire into Lebanon, but not before an Israeli citizen was injured by the rocket fire.
According to assessments in the Israeli army's Northern Command, the salvo was probably fired by Palestinian militant groups and not by Hezbollah.
"Even if it was a Palestinian group who fired the rockets, Hezbollah would have to at least have turned a blind eye to allow the rocket fire," a defense official told The Jerusalem Post.
A Lebanon government official said his country was trying to establish who fired the rockets. The official said Lebanon is committed to a UN-brokered truce that ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
The Lebanon army issued a statement saying the rockets were launched by an "unknown group" and it was investigating the incident.
An al-Jazeera reporter with close ties to Hezbollah told Israel's Channel 10 there was no chance the rockets were fired by the Shi'ite terror group, because the rockets were of an outdated model that Hezbollah had not used for years. He said if Hezbollah had wanted to open a new front in the current conlict it would have fired dozens of rockets and not just 3.
The Israeli government said regardless of who fired the records it was holding the Lebanese government and army responsible. "Israel holds the government of Lebanon and the Lebanese armed forces responsible for preventing rocket fire into Israel," a government statement said.
Meanwhile, Israel intensified its air strikes on Gaza Thursday and deepened its ground offensive.
Analysts were saying the Israeli army was wanting to inflict as much damage as it could before a ceasefire currently being discussed came into effect.
In Gaza, Israeli warplanes and helicopters carried out new strikes on what the army described as suspected arms-smuggling tunnels in the town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border. Israeli air strikes were also reported in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said it hit sixty sites including a mosque used as a weapons storage facility, a police building, smuggling tunnels, a number of armed operatives "that were prepared to fire at Israeli forces," launching sites and underground launching pads used to fire mortar shells.
Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting continued. Israeli officials say they view the Egyptian-French proposal for a ceasefire positively, and sent a negotiator to Cairo on Thursday morning to participate in talks on the proposal.
Hamas says it is also studying the plan.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed Washington's support for the ceasefire initiative and said she talked about the plan with Israel.
Rice also said she and the foreign ministers of Britain and France met with Arab League diplomats at the United Nations Wednesday to discuss a ceasefire resolution.
The Security Council remains split over two possible responses to halt Israel's incursion into Gaza, which aims to stop Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel.
One is a legally binding U.N. resolution drafted by Libya, demanding an immediate and permanent cease-fire and the lifting of Israel's blockade on Gaza.
The other is a non-binding statement, proposed by the United States, Britain and France that requires arrangements and guarantees, including preventing the smuggling of weapons to Hamas and the re-opening of border crossings.
Palestinian medics estimate that more than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting, while at least ten people have died on the Israeli side, including 7 soldiers.  Email this story to a friend
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Anonymous
01-08-09, 07:52 AM |
Confusion over rockets launched from Lebanon into Israel
Lost in all this news is the fact that the Israeli’s are still living on land that isn’t theirs. They took it by force because they insist the bible says it should be theirs. Who are the terrorists? If anyone came and took over Canada, kicking us all out of our owned homes, would we not fight to the death?
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Mrs Mahdi
01-08-09, 10:24 AM |
ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE TO TAKE...
...WHAT HAS ALWAYS BELONGED TO THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.
They don’t owe explanations or apologies, either.
If you can’t accept Bible truth, and if you can’t accept historical accuracy, than accept this simple principle - MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.
Israel will break Hamas’s neck. Eventually, Hamas will either cry “uncle”, or will die to the last idiotic gasp.
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korb
01-09-09, 11:10 AM |
i like watching the stupid PALs killing themselves
They are so stupid, I almost feel sorry for them. If they don’t want to raise the white flag in order to save their own people then they sure do get what they deserve. After all, they are the ones responsible for electing Hamas. A few more days of this war and we will get rid of the Hamas leadership. I just hope that after it is all over the stupid PALs will remember that messing with this goliath comes with a price...
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` ~galljdaj+
01-08-09, 08:15 AM |
The above poster claims to be a Canadian...
... , but does not speak as such.
The empire stole land and resources from the Native Americans exactly as the case in Palestine. Does the Poster not know History? Or it simply does not matter? The wind blows the flag!
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Anonymous
01-08-09, 09:48 AM |
what country exists that didn’t take their land from others? We can justify it by the betterment of the population. This gives Israel the right to take all the land that they are assaulted from because they have a more humane government then their neighbors and most of all they have the God given promise of owning it. the arabs will not and cannot take it,,,ever.
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kormono
01-08-09, 05:29 PM |
Good Point but .
` ~galljdaj+;122746:
... , but does not speak as such.
The empire stole land and resources from the Native Americans exactly as the case in Palestine. Does the Poster not know History? Or it simply does not matter? The wind blows the flag!
The native americans should start firing rockets into american Cities from their reservations. Why isn’t that happening? Because hate is not an ingredient in their daily diet. Hamass, hissbolah and all islamists terrorists and their supporters breath hatred. You are just a whiner, whiners are losers.
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` ~galljdaj+
01-08-09, 10:05 AM |
My my such ethics of poster 09:48am!
"We can justify” are such nice simple words matched by and with such horrible deeds of murders.
Just where in 'democracy' and 'constitution' are these nice words of we can justify?
Where in all documentations of Communities and Treaties amongst peoples for interaction and defense, are these nice word or sentiments expressed?
My opinion at this time based on my travels and interactions, the poster is a lil self serving liar and theif. Now its an opinion, so you have an opportunity to how wrong that opinion is. So is it wrong?
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` ~galljdaj+
01-08-09, 11:18 AM |
Ah... ms mahdi speaks with distain for the truth she claims...
... , and she may just find the World Communities are tired of her lies and acts that kill in order to oppress.
Some years back a black hearted jew by the name of abraham began the jewish tradition of lying for his benefit. Abraham being an incestister and a liar attempted to disgrace a King of Egypt by passing off his incested wife to the King. The King discovered the Truth, and the plot failed. However the King accepted the covering lies and Ambraham grew inspite of his wrongs.
What has maintained and we see the continuation in ms mahdi today, are the lies and false claims of the israelis.
I will not be surprised to see it is the world communities that place the likes of ms mahdi’s neck to the soles of shoes!
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Abraham The Father of Faith
01-08-09, 04:16 PM |
Watch your word, galljdaj+,, GOD will punish you,,
Watch your word,,galljdaj+,, GOD will punish you,, the Bible words are GOD breathed,,are you greater then GOD,, HE is the Almighty of the universe,, HE knows what HE is doing,, all human being on earth fail,, but not GOD and HE will accomplish HIS hobbies,, of creation,,galljdaj+,, who are you to blame,,eventually you will go back to dust. But we believers have eternal life,,eternal fire is for those who do not believe,,repent all of you,,who against Israel and the Christian,,
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` ~galljda
01-08-09, 07:24 PM |
Ah poor lil abric man...
Seems you do not know your words of your god! Or you simply don’t believe them! and foist on us nonsens!
The Torah and the Bible both tell us of the black heart of abraham! His lies! his deeds! his slave abuses! Where do you think today’s israeli trait originated?
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Anonymous
01-09-09, 02:47 AM |
You brought it up!
kormono;122857:
The native americans should start firing rockets into american Cities from their reservations. Why isn’t that happening? Because hate is not an ingredient in their daily diet. Hamass, hissbolah and all islamists terrorists and their supporters breath hatred. You are just a whiner, whiners are losers.
Native Americans are not firing rockets into your cities because they know it’s futile-They shall come from within and take America by using there own laws. If the Palistinians or lebennon or Iran or......get a nuclear arsenal well they may have a chance! Nobody whines more than America so does that make you losers to. You also nuke cities filled with civilians like in Japan no high ground here for America she’s the big terrorist Ho! Only say 30% of Americans don’t know this, you must be one!
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World sound
01-09-09, 01:29 AM |
Israel must go out from palestinian land
I say Israel must go out from palestin and land in one of the state of USA. It is better for them, better for all supporter of Israel in the world and also better for all people in the world.
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