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A Lebanese soldier inspects a rocket found in the garden of a house - Source: Reuters
Lebanese army soldiers found and deactivated four rockets in the
area from where a rocket had been fired towards northern Israel,
witnesses said.
The rockets had been positioned on wooden launchers and rigged to
launch with timing devices, the witnesses said.
There was no immediate comment from the army.
The rocket fired from the southern Lebanese village of Houla on
Tuesday struck the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona
causing no damage or injury.
Israel responded with artillery fire at Lebanon.
The commander of the UN peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) Major General
Claudio Graziano inspected the area where the rockets were found -
in the garden of a partially constructed house.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket
attack.
A militant group claiming links to al Qaeda said it was
responsible for firing two rockets from Lebanon at northern Israel
last month.
The border has remained mostly quiet though tense since Israel and
Hezbollah guerrillas fought a war in 2006.
Both Israel and Lebanon accuse each other of violating the UN-brokered truce which ended the war and after which UNIFIL's presence was beefed up.
