DAR AL HARB - ISRAEL/LEBANON: A NEW JIHADIST GROUP & ROCKETS BEING SHOT AT ISRAEL

Previously unknown militant Islamic group claims rocket attack on Israel

BEIRUT, Lebanon: A previously unknown militant Islamic group claimed responsibility on Monday for a rocket attack on northern Israel.

The self-proclaimed group, "the Jihadi Badr Brigades — Lebanon branch," vowed in a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Beirut to continue attacks on Israel.

"We had promised our people Jihad (holy war). Here, we again strike the Zionists when a group from the Jihadi Badr Brigades struck the Zionists in the occupied Palestinian territory," the statement said.

Two rockets fired from Lebanon landed Sunday in northern Israel, causing damage but no casualties, in the first such incident since last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.

The authenticity of the group's claim could not be immediately confirmed.




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