Two Rockets Fired at Northern Israel

In the overnight attack, one of the rockets landed on the balcony of a house while the other hit a lamp post. No one was wounded but the house sustained slight damage.

It was not yet clear which group fired the rockets, but the defense establishment was examining the possibility that they were fired as an attempt by Hizbullah or other terror groups in Lebanon to disrupt Wednesday's visit of US President George W. Bush.

A senior UNIFIL officer told The Jerusalem Post that the force was conducting its own investigation into the rocket fire and that at this stage, it did not rule out any suspects, including Hizbullah, al-Qaida and radical groups in southern Lebanon.

 
The officer said a UNIFIL team visited Shlomi, collected evidence from the site and was working to ascertain the exact location from where the rockets were fired.

The IDF said that the reason the rocket fire went unnoticed was because the detection system on the northern border was not always operational. The army stated that the system is only activated as per security assessment and under the orders of the IDF Operations Directorate.