Two rockets hit a
Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday and wounded
several people, residents said, a day after the leader of Lebanese
Shi'ite militant movement Hizbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said his group would continue
fighting in Syria until victory.
It was the first attack to
apparently target Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the Lebanese
capital since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in neighboring
Syria, which has sharply heightened Lebanon's own sectarian tensions.
One
of the rockets landed in a car sales yard next to a busy road junction
in the Shiah neighborhood and the other hit an apartment several hundred
meters away, wounding five people, residents said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the army said it was investigating who was behind the attack.
A
Lebanese security source said three rocket launchers were found, one of
which had failed to launch, in the hills to the southeast of the
Lebanese capital, about 5 miles from the area where the two rockets
landed.
This is the speech Nasrallah held:
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