Blasts rock Israeli town
Three explosions rocked a residential area of a northern Israeli town tonight, the army said. No injuries were reported.
Three projectiles landed in the town of Kiryat Shemona, near the Lebanese border, causing some damage, the army said. It was not clear whether the explosions were caused by rockets or mortar fire.
Channel Two television showed the remains of what appeared to be a katyusha rocket, along with pictures of holes in the ground and in the side of a home.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Both Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants operate in nearby southern Lebanon.
Last month, Israeli fighter jets attacked a command post of the Hezbollah guerrilla group in south Lebanon – a day after Hezbollah rocket and mortar attacks wounded 11 Israeli soldiers and damaged a house in an Israeli border community.
Israel withdrew from an occupied enclave in southern Lebanon in 2000. While fighting in the area has dropped since then, the border remains tense and Hezbollah frequently targets Israeli troops in the disputed Chebaa Farms area.
Lebanon and Syria say Chebaa Farms is Lebanese territory, but UN cartographers who surveyed the border after the Israeli withdrawal said it belongs to that part of Syria which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Israel says it will discuss control of the area only in future peace talks with Syria.
