Israeli planes attack bases responsible for firing rockets from Lebanon

AP/NY Times:

Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian militant bases in Lebanon Sunday in response to a rocket attack on northern Israel, Lebanese officials said. One militant was killed and at least five were wounded.

The Lebanese army said six rockets were fired at a base in eastern Lebanon while several others hit a base near the Mediterranean coast.

''Lebanese army anti-aircraft units opened fire at the hostile warplanes,'' the army said.

The jets targeted two militant command posts, one of which was used as a storage facility for weaponry and ammunition, the Israeli army said.

The planes carried three raids on a base of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in Sultan Yacoub, a village about 3 miles from the Syrian border, Lebanese officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Lebanese Red Cross ambulances took the slain militant and the five wounded from Sultan Yacoub base, the officials said.

The jets then carried out air raids on the hills outside the town of Naameh, 12 miles south of Beirut, where the PFLP-GC Palestinian militant group also has bases.

''Israel attacked this morning one of our positions in the western sector of the Bekaa Valley,'' in eastern Bekaa Vally, Anwar Raja, the PFLP-GC representative in Lebanon, told The Associated Press.

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Why doe Lebanon allow bases for people to attack a neighboring state? And, why are its troops defending them when Israel responds to attacks?

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