Hezbollah distinct in Beirut hit by twin rocket strike

PanARMENIAN.Net - At least three people have been wounded by a rocket strike on the southern part of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Two rockets hit a district controlled by the Hezbollah organisation, officials and residents were quoted as saying by news agencies, BBC News reported.

Tension has been high over the conflict in neighbouring Syria.

On Saturday May 26, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised his supporters they would prevail in Syria, where they are backing President Bashar al-Assad.

There was no immediate indication who had fired the rockets but Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said the projectiles, believed to be 107mm rockets with an 8-km (5-mile) range, had been fired from a position to the south-east.

Dozens of militants from Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim organisation, are said to have been killed in recent fighting alongside Syrian troops, who face a mainly Sunni Muslim opposition.

The fiery speech by the Hezbollah leader had raised fears that the involvement of his fighters in Syria would have repercussions in Lebanon. The leader of Lebanon's mainly Sunni March 14th movement, former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, said that what Hezbollah was doing in Syria was "political and military suicide".