Agence France-Presse,
Israeli troops fired five shells at south Lebanon where the army was searching for the guerrillas who fired rockets earlier Sunday on northern Israel, security forces said.
Five shells slammed on the mountainous areas of Birkat Naqqar and Jabal Saddaneh near the town of Shebaa in the eastern sector of the border with Israel, they said. There were no reports of casualties.
Lebanese troops carried out patrols and erected checkpoints in search of a civilian vehicle from where the rockets were apparently fired into northern Israel, they said.
An AFP correspondent saw Lebanese troops cordoning off an area between the villages of Adaysseh and Taibe, in the central sector of the border zone, where a rocket was apparently left behind by the guerrillas.
The shelling came moments after two rockets slammed into northern Israel from Lebanon without causing any casualties, in the first such fire since last summer's conflict with Hezbollah.
Israeli radios quoted defence officials as saying the rockets were fired by a Palestinian organisation in Lebanon, but gave no details.
The Lebanese Shiite militant Hezbollah said it “denies any relation with the launching of rockets today toward occupied Palestine,” according to the group's television station.
A number of pro-Syrian Palestinian groups which maintain armed bases in Lebanon have been previously accused of firing rockets at northern Israel.
But Abu Imad Ramez, spokesman for the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), denied responsibility for the latest attack.
