It is said on Monday that the Lebanese Armed Forces spotted a rocket launcher in the Lebanese border region of Qlaileh, which was about to be fired by unknown gunmen into Israeli territory.
"Military specialists dismantled the camouflaged installation and confiscated 122mm shells," it indicated. - "The information about the prevented sortie was passed to the peacekeepers of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon [UNIFIL]."
On Monday night, a rocket was fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel, which landed in an uninhabited area near the Jewish settlement of Matzuva. Israeli forces responded with artillery strikes on Lebanese territory. The military command said in a statement that the enemy fired about 50 shells that exploded in the areas of Tayr Harfa, Wadi al-Humus, Alma al-Sha'b and Zebqine. There were no civilian casualties, only material damage. The Lebanese Army, in coordination with UN patrols, is surveying the border area to prevent further incursions. Earlier, UNIFIL commander General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz called on the parties "to restrain and maintain peace," the report said.
In May 2021, militants from radical groups in the Rashidiya Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre repeatedly shelled northern Israel in response to escalating violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Lebanese soldiers and UN peacekeepers on several occasions detected rocket launchers fired at them, but failed to apprehend the violators of the ceasefire.
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