Three rockets were fired into the Bekaa valley village of Nabi Shayth, a Hezbollah stronghold; the Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon claimed the attack as revenge for Hezbollah’s actions in Syria and threatened “unique operations” against it in the future. Syrian jets dropped bombs near an army checkpoint in Arsal. A suspected arsonist started a fire that destroyed much of a Sidon mosque. Tensions rose on Lebanon’s southern border after Israeli airstrikes killed two Hezbollah fighters near Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights.
