DUBAI - A group claims it fired the Katyusha rocket attack from Lebanon that hit northern Israel earlier this week, a US-based group that monitors websites said on Thursday.
The Brigades of Abdullah Azzam, Battalions of Ziad Jarrah, said it was responsible for Tuesday's attack, according to a statement released on Thursday by the Al-Fajr Media Centre, SITE Intelligence Group said.
The group said it had prepared five rockets but only fired one, adding that the attack was to protest a Sunday raid by Israeli police on occupied Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
"The occupying Jews have dared to repeatedly raid the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque ... In response to this aggression, a battalion among the Battalions of Ziad Jarrah" fired the Katyusha, it said.
Israeli occupation forces twice entered Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday and clashed with Palestinian youths.
Israel retaliated to the attack with an artillery barrage. No casualties were reported in either case.
Abdullah Azzam is the name of Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's mentor. He was killed in a 1989 bomb blast.
Lebanese Ziad Jarrah is the name of one of the alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
He is believed to have been one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93.
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