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Two Rockets Hit Beirut's Southern Suburbs

Sunday morning, May 26, two rockets hit Beirut's predominantly Shiite southern suburbs, in what some see as the Syria conflict increasingly encroaching on Lebanon.
A policeman inspects damaged cars after two rockets hit houses and a car sales yard in Beirut suburbs May 26, 2013.  Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday, residents said, wounding several people, a day after the leader of Lebanese Shi'ite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria until victory.  REUTERS/Mohammed Azakir       (LEBANON - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) - RTX1015N
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In a security escalation that is the first of its kind since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, on Sunday [May 26] two rockets fell on a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs. Initial reports indicate that four people were injured.

However, the political and security consequences of this event could far surpass [the human casualties], given the following background factors:

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