Israel intercepts rocket fired from Lebanon and retaliates with strikes

The Israeli army announced that it intercepted a rocket fired from Lebanon on Thursday, April 6, after violence in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem where the Israeli police intervened to dislodge Palestinian worshipers. Israel shortly after bombarded southern Lebanon, reports the official Lebanese agency ANI, without reporting any casualties.

“A rocket was fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory and was successfully intercepted”, the IDF said in a statement earlier. Warning sirens sounded in the town of Shlomi and Moshav Betzet in northern Israel, the army added, hinting that more rockets may have been fired. This shooting has not been claimed so far.

Hezbollah denounces the violence of Al-Aqsa

Earlier on Thursday, Lebanon’s pro-Iranian armed Islamist movement, Hezbollah, warned it would support “all measures” that Palestinian groups could take against Israel after the clashes that rocked the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site.

Hezbollah, the pet peeve of Israel and which de facto controls southern Lebanon, maintains good relations with the Palestinian movement Hamas, in power in Gaza, and with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, received officials from both parties in March.