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<font size="3"> Four rockets struck northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people, Israeli police and emergency medical services said.</font> <p><font size="3">The rockets hit near the city of Nahariya, located about six miles from the Lebanese border, police said. The Israeli military said it returned fire toward the source of the rockets after the attack.</font></p><p><font size="3">Schools and kindergartens were closed in Nahariya and the nearby town of Shlomi, the Israel Defense Forces reported. </font></p><p><font size="3">The Israeli military warned civilians in the western Galilee region to stay close to shelters in the aftermath of Thursday's attack. </font></p><p><font size="3">The report comes as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, aimed at halting rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to the south, entered a 13th day.</font></p><p><strong><font size="3" color="#004276">Israel</font></strong><font size="3"> fought a similar campaign against the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah in 2006, during which Hezbollah rained rockets on cities in Israeli's north for a month before a cease-fire was reached.</font></p><p> </p><p><font size="3">There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's attack.</font></p><p class="cnnInline"><strong><font size="3" color="#004276">Hezbollah</font></strong><font size="3"> has kept a tight rein on its forces in southern Lebanon since the cease-fire, however, and a number of Palestinian factions operate in southern Lebanon as well.</font> </p><p>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/08/israel.rockets/ </p><p> </p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>