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A rocket was launched this Sunday night (24.04.2022) from Lebanon to northern Israel, prompting retaliatory fire into Lebanese territory, the army said. Israeli.
“A rocket was fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory,” the army said in a statement, adding that its artillery fired retaliatory fire ” in the direction of the launch point” of the projectile.
The projectile landed on open ground near Kibbutz Matzuva in northern Israel without causing any casualties, according to the army . The shot was not immediately claimed.
State of war
The Israeli army had fired in the direction of Lebanon in the summer of last year in response to rocket fire on its territory, claimed by the Shiite Hezbollah movement.
Previously, the last projectile fired at Israel from Lebanon occurred last May, in the midst of the conflict between the army Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.
After several conflicts, Israel and Lebanon technically remain in a state of war, and the Interim Force of the UN remains deployed in southern Lebanon as a buffer between the two countries.
mg (afp, dpa)