Escalation

Breaking News Rockets are being fired from Lebenon into Israel! More to come as story unfolds

Two people were lightly wounded when terrorists in Lebanon on Thursday morning fired three Katyusha rockets at the area of Nahariya in northern Israel.

According to assessments in the IDF's Northern Command, the salvo was probably fired by Palestinian terror groups and not by Hizbullah, but the possibility that Hizbullah instructed another group to fire at Israel could not be ruled out.

Defense officials said the army returned fire.

An Al Jazeera reporter with close ties to Hizbullah said there was no chance the rockets were fired by the Shi'ite terror group, because the rockets were of an outdated model that Hizbullah had not used for years. Channel 10 also quoted him as saying that had Hizbullah wisheded to open a second front on Israel's North it would have fired dozens of rockets and not only three.

Shlomi Mayor Gabi Na'aman told Channel 10 that the municipality decided to cancel school studies on Thursday.

On Wednesday, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah stepped up his rhetoric against Israel, warning that the IDF could not destroy Hamas and that Israel would suffer another "defeat" should it attack Lebanon.

In a speech broadcast on Arab media channels, Nasrallah vowed to crush any offensive Israel might launch against Hizbullah.

Israel had warned Hizbullah against opening another front, saying it would retaliate massively.

In late December, The Lebanese army discovered and defused eight Katyusha rockets that had been placed near the southern town of Nakoura and were about to be fired at Israel.

The 107-millimeter projectiles were fitted with timers and were defused "a short while before the time set for their launching," according to the Lebanese news site Naharnet.

Brenda Gazzar and AP contributed to this report