evidence: Reports of the ebb and flow of fighting in the following weeks were often confused and contradictory. Nevertheless, the SAA and Hizb Allah slowly gained ground, capturing villages to the west and southwest of Qusayr. Hizb Allah’s role in the fighting triggered several rocket barrages into the Shi`a-populated Hermel district of Lebanon’s northern Bekaa. On April 14, rockets struck Hawsh Sayyed Ali, Sahlat al-My, Qwak and Qasr in Lebanon, killing two people.[13] More rockets hit the same area on April 21 and April 23.[14] As the SAA and Hizb Allah pushed the rebels back toward Qusayr, the Lebanese Shi`a-populated areas of the northern Bekaa fell beyond the range of the 107mm, 122mm and homemade rockets fired by the anti-Assad rebels from the northeast.[15] The Hermel area, however, was subject to several more rocket salvoes fired from a mountainous area in Syria due east.[16] [...] [7] Personal interviews, Shi`a residents from Safafah village in Syria and Hawsh Beit Ali and Qasr villages in Lebanon, Qasr and Hawsh Beit Ali, Lebanon, October 16, 2012.