Rocket found in Afula
Photo: Omri Eilat
Lebanese army seizes rocket launcher
Grad rocket launcher found in forest some 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of border near PFLP training camp
For the first time since the beginning of the fighting, the Lebanese army seized Saturday a Grad rocket launcher in a forest some 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of the border with Israel. An armed Palestinian and twenty-five rockets were found near the launcher.
The rockets were found some seven kilometers (about 4.3 miles) from a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine training camp, but it remains unclear whether organization members were those who planned to fire the rockets toward Israel.
At the onset of the fighting in Lebanon the Israeli Air Force attacked PFLP training camps in the Bekaa Valley area.
Several rocket barrages were fired toward Tiberias, Maalot and Safed on Saturday; two people were lightly injured. On Friday five rocket landing sites were located in the Afula area; the rockets found were 5-9 meters in length, and police sources told Ynet they are apparently advanced Fajr-5 type rockets, with a range of up to 100 kilometers (62 miles).
Hizbullah issued a statement saying it had attacked Afula with rockets it had not used up to this point.
“With this attack a new phase in the battle against the enemy has begun,” adding that the rockets fired at Afula have a 50-kilometer (31 miles) range.
