Israeli aircraft have fired missiles at a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon, hours after a barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon landed in an Israeli army base in northern Israel, lightly wounding a soldier.
Witnesses and a security source said at least eight Israeli missiles were fired in two sorties against the military base run by the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian-General Command (PFLP-GC) near the town of Luci in the Bekaa Valley on Sunday.
It was not immediately known whether there were any casualties, but witnesses saw ambulances rushing to the area.
An Israeli army spokesman had no immediate comment.
Earlier rockets fired into northern Israel wounded an Israeli soldier.
The barrage is the first to have been fired into Israel since February 3, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.
A statement issued by the army later said Israel "holds the Lebanese government responsible for any attacks which originate in its territory".
Israel Radio reported that the rockets landed near the northern Israeli town of Safed.
The exchange came two days after a senior Islamic Jihad official and his brother were killed in a car bombing in southern Lebanon that the Palestinian group blamed on Israel.
Lebanon's Hizbollah group, which controls the Lebanese side of the border, also blamed Israel for the assassination and Islamic Jihad officials swore revenge.
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A Lebanese boy sits on the barrel of an artillery holding a Hizbollah flag in a former Israeli prison in al-Kiam village in south Lebanon near the border with Israel, May 25, 2006. Reuters
Israeli Jets Strike East Lebanon
- Publish date:28/05/2006
- Section:WORLD HEADLINES