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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: December 29, 2005 |
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Lebanon's prime minister condemned on Wednesday a rocket barrage fired a day earlier into northern Israel, while a U.N. envoy urged the Lebanese government to assert its control over the tense border region to prevent future attacks on the Jewish state.
The comments by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora were a rare strong criticism of such rocket fire from Lebanese territory into Israel.
The rockets landed in a residential area of the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, damaging property but causing no causalties. Israel blamed the attack on a terrorist pro-Syrian Palestinian group and retaliated with airstrikes early Wednesday against the group's base outside Beirut - Israel's deepest strike into Lebanon in 18 months.
"These acts - the firing of rockets and the Israeli raids and air violations - are eventually aimed at undermining stability in Lebanon and distracting attention from efforts to continue internal dialogue on major issues," Saniora said in a statement carried by the official National News Agency.
Saniora urged Palestinian groups to clearly condemn such attacks and cooperate with the government to end the presence of weapons outside Palestinian camps.
The cross-border violence came amid sharp tensions between Saniora's government and Syria over a U.N. investigation into the February assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. The U.N. inquiry has implicated Syrian officials in the killing. |
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