Fire was exchanged across the Israel-Lebanon border today, with at least one Lebanese rocket striking an empty field in Israel and the Israeli military responding with artillery strikes. In both cases no damage and no casualties were reported.
The Israeli Army claimed someone in Lebanon fired five rockets at Israel, though the Israeli government has only been able to confirm one actual hit, and Lebanese soldiers were shown with the wreckage of at least one of the makeshift rockets, which landed inside Lebanon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that he holds the Lebanese government responsible for the attack, and threatened “possible pre-emptive action” against Lebanese territory in the future. Netanyahu also dubbed the incident a “double war crime,” arguing Lebanon’s government should be held accountable both for the rockets themselves and their failure to prevent the rockets.
Obviously, the Lebanese government didn’t fire the rockets, and so far it is unclear who did. Israeli officials are assuming Hezbollah is to blame, but the group has many more and better rockets than those fired, so it seems strange that they would choose to launch a small, random barrage with their least powerful, least accurate weapons.
Let's also remember that Israel has a history of purposefully aggressing against Lebanon (by killing and kidnapping Lebanese militia members, etc.) to provoke the Lebanese to retaliate in kind, so that Israel can use then their retaliation as an excuse to commit MASSIVE, long-planned terrorist wars against Lebanon, as Israel did in 2006, including saturating Lebanese civilian villages with 4 million cluster sub-munitions AFTER a UN peace agreement was negotiated.
This was the single densest cluster bombing in history, replacing the USA's 1991 dropping of 20 million cluster bombs over a larger area, in Iraq.
looks like someone is trying to strike a match in a tinder box and create a pretext for another war of aggression…who ever that is [ as the article points out, it seems unlikely to be hezbollah] one hopes they do not succeed and they get their fingers burnt for their trouble….