Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed that "Hezbollah fired the rockets from Lebanon today, not Hamas, and it must bear the consequences." He added, "The firing of rockets from Lebanon does not occur without the approval and coordination from Nasrallah." Earlier, a statement from "Al-Qassam Brigades" in Lebanon mentioned: "We shelled the settlement of 'Nahariya' and southern Haifa in northern occupied Palestine with 16 rockets in response to the atrocities of the occupation and its aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip."