Terrorists in Lebanon, in violation of a binding UN Security Council resolution to disarm, fired katyusha rockets into Israel yesterday, wounding an Israeli soldier. In response, Israel bombed several terrorist bases, killing one and wounding five.
They should have sent out more bombers.
After three to eight Katyusha rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon Sunday morning, the Israeli Air Force reprised with an air strike on two bases in southeast Lebanon, wounding six Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine operatives.
Some of the Katyushas hit in the residential section of the air control unit base in Mount Meron, some 10 km (6.25 miles) from the border. One soldier suffered from shock and was evacuated to the Ziv hospital in Safed in light condition, and one of the base’s buildings was lightly damaged.
Shortly after 10 a.m. the air force retaliated with missile strikes in the Lebanese valley. The first targeted the Popular Front general headquarters in Sultan Yaakov five kilometers from the Syrian border. Al Jazeera reported that eight missiles were fired at the base, wounding at least three operatives. Afterwards, the planes returned and fired at a Popular Front base in the Nueima area south of Beirut.
A senior PFLP member told al-Jazeera his group has the right to retaliate for the attack. Asked whether his group was behind the attack, he refused to answer and said: “Blessed be the hand that fired into Israel.”
The AP spin:
“Israel attacked this morning one of our positions in the western sector of the Bekaa Valley,” in eastern Bekaa Vally, Anwar Raja, the PFLP-GC representative in Lebanon, told The Associated Press.
Raja later told Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television that one guerrilla was killed and six were wounded. He did not say whether the casualties were in Sultan Yacoub or Naameh.
Later Sunday, the Lebanese army sent a bulldozer to the PFLP-GC base near Sultan Yacoub to help remove rubble from the entrance of a tunnel, security officials said.
Palestinian militants did not allow the Lebanese troops into their base, and said two of the Israeli rockets had not exploded, the officials said.
Notice how the article points out that the Lebanese army does not control its own territory, and was not allowed to enter the terrorist base. Who runs the Bekaa Valley? Terrorists, sponsored by Syria and Iran.
I await the world’s condemnation of the attacks from Lebanon.
No, not really. I know the world will ignore the Lebanese attacks, tell Israel to “exercise restraint” and not “escalate” the “violence.” The headline of the AP article displays perfectly the world’s bias against Israel: “Israel Attacks Militant Bases in Lebanon.” I suppose we should be grateful for the first paragraph actually being honest for once:
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) – Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian militant bases in Lebanon Sunday in response to a rocket attack on northern Israel, Lebanese officials said. One militant was killed and at least five were wounded.
The reason, of course, is that this is a clear case of unprovoked attacks by palestinian terrorists operating out of Lebanon. But give the AP time. They’ll spin it against Israel soon enough.