JERUSALEM - Israel said Thursday it would lodge a complaint at the United Nations calling on Beirut to disarm all militias after a Katyusha-type rocket fired from southern Lebanon hit the Jewish state.
The attack late Wednesday caused no casualties but did do damage in the industrial area of the town of Shlomi, five kilometers (three miles) from the Lebanese border close to the Mediterranean.
The Israeli delegation to the UN had been instructed to "lodge an official complaint about the violation" said foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev.
"Israel calls for the complete implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1559 which also calls for the disarming of all armed militas in Lebanon, like the one responsible for firing this rocket," he added.
"A civilian population centre was deliberately targeted and this is unacceptable."
Military sources said the rocket was probably fired by a Palestinian group and not the Lebanese-based Shiite movement Hezbollah.
In southern Lebanon, Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL, said it was investigating the cross-border attack.
Lebanese security sources in the port city of Tyre said the rocket was fired from an area near the border town of Naqura. They gave no further details.
The Israeli military said it was the third Katyusha attack from Lebanon in the past year.
05/12/2005 16:32 GMT