BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah television said the deadly attack on a Jewish religious college in Jerusalem Thursday was carried out by the previously unknown "Phalange of Free Men of Galilee - Groups of the Martyr Imad Mughnieh and Martyrs of Gaza."

The claim was made in a tag line running across the bottom of the screen on Al-Manar television, and no further details were given.

Imad Mughnieh was a top Hezbollah commander assassinated in a Damascus bombing on February 12.

The Lebanese Shiite Muslim movement blamed the killing on Israel and threatened attacks in revenge. Israeli has denied any involvement in the killing.

Hezbollah official Nawaf Moussaoui, reached by AFP, said he had no comment on the attack.

Celebratory gunfire erupted in many of Lebanon’s 14 Palestinan refugee camps on news of the attack. At the Beddawi camp in the northern city of Tripoli, residents poured into the streets to celebrate, firing in the air and distributing sweets to passersby. -AFP