Lebanese army discover 4 rockets near Israel border
Officials say military intelligence uncovered four projectiles near the Lebanon-Israel border
Lebanese officials said army troops have discovered four rockets near the country's border with the Israel, a Lebanese paper reported on Monday.
The officials said it was not immediately clear whether the rockets were primed to fire.
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The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the rockets were found by military intelligence near the village of Majidieh, where the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel meet.
Monday's discovery comes a week after a rocket directed toward Israel fell short in Lebanon, injuring a woman in the southern region.
Security sources said the rocket was fired from the Wadi al-Qaisiyeh area, about 2 km (one mile) from the frontier and landed in the village of Hula inside Lebanon.
Last month, several rockets were fired across the border from Lebanon at Israel, the first such incident since 2009. Lebanon's army said Israel launched four rockets in return.
The border region has been largely quiet in the five years since Israel and Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006. But there have been concerns that tensions over the nine-month uprising in Syria and tougher Western sanctions against Iran could trigger violence.
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