BEIRUT, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Lebanese interior minister Elias Murr stressed Tuesday that those who launched rockets from south Lebanon against Israel are terrorists, Elnashra website reported.

    Speaking to reporters after meeting his Italian counterpart Ignazio la Russa at Beirut airport, Murr said that "those who fired rockets at Israel are Israeli agents."

    He spoke of consensus among various Lebanese factions to "refrain from giving Israel a pretext to launch an attack on Lebanon."

    "The Lebanese cabinet is seriously committed to UN resolution 1701," Murr added, promising that Lebanese territories will not be a stage to launch missiles.

    UN resolution 1701 called for cease of hostile actions in south Lebanon following the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

    "We will not accept to be dragged by any terrorist group into a war which is not decided by neither the Lebanese army nor the Lebanese government," Murr added.

    He said that Lebanon is not a theater for war which is not decided by "the government, the army, the resistance and the Lebanese people."

    Last Thursday, three Katyusha rockets were launched from south Lebanon into northern Israel, prompting an Israeli retaliation by firing back missiles against the suspected areas where the rockets were launched from.

    The incident raise fear of a new Lebanese-Israeli confrontation, which was refused by all Lebanese groups including Hezbollah who fought a 34-day devastating war with Israel in 2006.