Hezbollah getting a taste of its own medicine.

Via LWJ:

The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant claimed credit for today’s bombing in the Lebanese city of Hermel. The attack is the latest by al Qaeda-affiliated groups that have targeted Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Today’s bombing in Hermel, a city near the border with Syria in the Hezbollah-dominated Bekaa Valley, took place at rush hour near a government building, the Daily Star reported.

The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, one of two official al Qaeda branches that operate in Syria, released a statement on Twitter claiming credit for the attack.

“By the grace of Allah, a stronghold of the Party of Iran [Hezbollah] was shaken in a martyrdom-seeking operation whose knight was one of the lions of the Al Nusrah Front in Lebanon,” the group said, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which obtained the tweets.

The Al Nusrah Front, whose emir publicly renewed his allegiance to Ayman al Zawahiri last year, said that the bombing was carried out “in response to the crimes that the party is perpetrating against the women and children of the Sunni people in Syria.”