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| Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut | |
| 2013-05-26 | |
| Bwa-ha-ha-ha [Jpost] Several people wounded in strike on Shi'ite Muslim district; attack comes hours after Nasrallah says his fighters are committed to Syria's war "to the end of the road"; no immediate claim of responsibility. Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday, residents said, wounding several people, a day after the leader of Lebanese Shi'ite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria until victory. One of the rockets landed in a car sales yard next to a busy road junction in the southern Chiah neighborhood and the other hit an apartment 300 meters away, wounding five people.. The attack, close to Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut, came just hours after its leader Hassan Nasrallah said his fighters were committed to Syria's war "to the end of the road." Syria's two-year uprising has polarized Lebanon, with Sunni Muslims supporting the rebellion against Bashar Assad and Shi'ite Hezbollah standing by the Syrian president. A wave of fighting in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli between factions supporting opposing sides in the Syrian conflict has killed at least 25 people over the last week. The bloodshed in Tripoli coincides with a fierce battle in Syria for the border town of Qusair, in which Hezbollah combatants have been fighting alongside Assad's army to drive out Syrian rebels who are supported by foreign fighters.
In addition, the Lebanese security forces found a third launching pad from which no rockets were fired. Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, who described the shooting as an act of sabotage, said the third launching pad was found in an uninhabited area in the woods. Unofficial Lebanese security sources said the projectiles fired on the Hezbollah strongholds were Katyusha rockets. The state-run National News Agency said among the maimed were three Syrians | |
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