A statement by the Ziad al-Jarrah division of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed Monday it was behind the Katyusha rocket firing against northern Israel last week. "Your brothers fired two Katyusha rockets from south Lebanon which landed in the Nahariya settlement north of the occupied Palestine," said a statement on web sites.
According to Naharnet, the group cited Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and the prevention of worshippers from praying at the Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem as reasons for the attack.
Ziad al-Jarrah, a Lebanese militant, was one of the group of 19 who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Abdullah Azzam was Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's mentor.
