Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced on Sunday that "unorganized and non-Lebanese" elements fired rockets from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel. Mikati: "The matter was a reaction to the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories and the Gaza Strip" The Lebanese prime minister stressed that Lebanon "absolutely rejects any military escalation from its territory" and also rejects "the use of its territory to carry out operations that cause destabilization of the existing stability"