Lebanese and United Nations (UNIFIL) soldiers have discovered and defused four more Katyusha rockets at the same launching pad used to attack Kiryat Shmona with a missile Tuesday night. No one was injured in the explosion, which ignited a brush fire near the city.
Israel charged that the Lebanese government, in which the Hizbullah terrorist organization has a large minority, is responsible for all attacks in
UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane stated, "UNIFIL immediately launched an investigation” into the rocket fire from the village of Houla, the site of recent explosions of alleged underground spy devices.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a report issued several hours before the latest rocket attack, expressed “deep concern” over Hizbullah’s public support for other terrorists in southern
U.N. special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen told a closed-door session of the Security Council that Hizbullah must be disarmed and transformed into a non-military political party. Its political arm holds approximately one-third of the Cabinet seats and has a virtual veto over all major legislation.