Hezbollah condemns rockets launching, reiterates support to LAF

Hezbollah issued on Friday a statement in which it condemned the rockets launching on Yarzeh, saying that such acts "have direct and well known goals."

The statement added that terrorists are seeking to attack the military institution in order "to foment internal strife between Lebanon's components."

Hezbollah also slammed attempts of some Lebanese and Arab media outlets to link the Yarzeh attack to the latest speech of President Michel sleiman pertaining to the Resistance and its role, noting that media are trying to foment strife between the Lebanese people.

The statement slammed the use of violence and crimes to oppress political opinions, reiterating Hezbollah's support to the Lebanese Armed Forces.

Two rockets slammed on Thursday night into the region of Yarze, the first hitting the al-Frayha building near the Presidential Palace and the second landing near the Khashiqji building, military sources told LBCI on Friday.

Well-informed sources also told LBCI that the perpetrators probably used a mobile launch pad and then escaped the area.

It is worth noting that Gendarmerie Commander Brigadier General Joseph Douaihy inspected the region overnight, and confirmed that the attacks caused material damages.

The blasts were the latest in a series of rocket attacks that have targeted areas just south of the capital in the past two months, a direct fallout from the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Lebanon is deeply divided along sectarian lines and between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The attack comes on the same day that President Michel Sleiman gave a speech for Army Day in which he criticized the involvement of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in the Syrian civil war in support of Assad's forces.

Sleiman called for Hezbollah's weapons to be folded under that of the Lebanese army. The group has a formidable weapons arsenal that rivals that of the national army.