JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Four rockets struck northern
Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people, Israeli
police and emergency medical services said.
The Lebanese Army issued a statement, saying the rockets were
launched by "an unknown group" and that the Israeli retaliatory
fire inflicted no casualties.
The rockets hit near the city of Nahariya, located about six
miles from the Lebanese border, police said. The Israeli military
said it returned fire toward the source of the rockets after the
attack.
Schools and kindergartens were closed in Nahariya and the nearby
town of Shlomi, the Israel Defense Forces reported.
The Israeli military warned civilians in the western Galilee
region to stay close to shelters in the aftermath of Thursday's
attack.
The report comes as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, aimed at halting
rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to the
south, entered a 13th day.
Israelfought a similar campaign against the
Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah in 2006, during which
Hezbollah rained rockets on cities in Israeli's north for a month
before a cease-fire was reached.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's
attack.
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The Lebanese Army's statement also said its troops and the U.N.
peacekeeping mission that patrols the border "have taken all
necessary measures to protect the population and control the
situation."
Hezbollah has kept a tight rein on its
forces in southern Lebanon since the cease-fire, however, and a
number of Palestinian factions operate in southern Lebanon as
well.
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