Israel and Lebanon exchange fire
Updated on 08 January 2009
Israel has come under attack from rockets fired from Lebanon, threatening to open up a second front in the Gaza conflict.
A Israeli military spokesman said his country had aimed "a pinpoint response at the source of fire" in Lebanon. An Israeli security source said Israel had fired five artillery shells.
The four rockets fired from Lebanon hit the Israeli resort town of Nahariya and three other locations, wounding two people, police and medics said.
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Three Katyusha rockets were fired from Naqoura, southern Lebanon, targeting northern Israel. One rocket punched a hole in the roof of a building in the Nahariya area, north of the city of Haifa. Israel retaliated with an artillery salvo.
Meanwhile, residents in Gaza City described the overnight bombardment to the east of the city as among the heaviest in the offensive. In Khan Younis, south of Gaza, witnesses reported tanks advancing closer to the town and a Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Hamas is still returning fire, with rockets launched from Gaza hitting the southern city of Ashkelon and the Israeli desert town of Beersheva.
And in the occupied West Bank near Jerusalem, Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who tried to blow himself up in a petrol station at a Jewish settlement.
