Early this morning, a palestinian faction known as FPLP-CG, and whose commandment is based in Damascus, fired three rockets from a southern village in Lebanon, between Naquoura and Bint Jbeil. Israel didn’t wait long before firing back.
The government in Lebanon as well as Hezbollah agree (at meast for now, concerning Hezbollah) that Lebanon should respect the truce instigated by the 1701 UN resolution. But an escalation is not excluded because Tel Aviv warned Beirut: the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army should prevent palestinians from attacking northern Israel, or else the israeli forces will fight back.
Interrogated by Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera this morning, the FPLFP-CG spokesman said that its the whole region that can start burning because of the current situation in Gaza…
One question remains: why is Lebanon always involved in other people’s war? The south as well as the country’s major infrastructure, destoyed in July 2006 by Israel, had just been reconstructed.
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