The Zayid al-Jarrah division of the Abdallah Azzam brigades took responsibility Monday morning for the firing of Katyusha rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel over the weekend. The terror group is a branch of al-Qaida. The group published on the Internet: “Your brothers launched two Katyushas from southern Lebanon, which landed within the territory of Nahariya in occupied northern Palestine.”
The organization claims that it fired the rockets in protest of Israel’s “siege on Gaza” and it protests Israel’s prevention of worshippers to pray at the al-Aska mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
The terrorist organization is named after Zayid Samir Jarah, the Lebanese-born terrorist who hijacked and piloted a plane which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.