BEIRUT - PALESTINIAN Islamist group Hamas denied on Thursday it was responsible for firing rockets into northern Israel from south Lebanon.
'We cannot blame any Palestinian faction and we don't know who fired the rockets,' Hamas spokesman in Lebanon, Raafat Morra, told AFP.
'Hamas is pursuing its combat inside Palestine and our principle is not to use any other Arab soil to respond to the occupation. This is our firm policy,' he said.
'Basically what is happening is the fault of Israel because it is impossible to contain the Arab and Islamic world after the Gaza massacre.'
Several rockets fired from Lebanon landed in northern Israel on Thursday lightly wounding two people.
Israeli media citing unnamed military sources said the rockets could have been set off by Palestinian groups in retaliation for the war in Gaza. -- AFP
