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Neighbors and relatives carried the body of Lulu Awad, 17, through the streets of Hermel, Lebanon, on Tuesday. She was killed in a rocket attack a day before. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

HERMEL, Lebanon — Four rockets hit this village near the Syrian border on Tuesday afternoon, badly wounding a woman who was sitting under an olive tree in her yard, residents said. Shortly before, gunmen killed three Lebanese soldiers at a border checkpoint in the Bekaa Valley, adding to fears that the crisis in Syria is spilling into Lebanon.

Rocket attacks are becoming more frequent in Hermel, and they have killed at least three civilians, including a 17-year-old girl who died in her house on Monday night. Residents said they believed that they were being targeted because Hezbollah, the pro-Syrian Lebanese Shiite militant group, is the political power in the village and bases some operations nearby.

But Saad Hamedeh, the son of a prominent tribal sheik in the village, said there were no military targets there. “They are trying to kill civilians,” he said.

Residents blamed jihadi extremists for the rocket fire and said they believed that the source was in the Lebanese town of Arsal. Those firing, they believe, are either Syrian rebels or their Lebanese Sunni sympathizers.

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Hermel is mainly Shiite, and Arsal is predominantly Sunni. Credit The New York Times

Hermel, which is mainly Shiite, and Arsal, which is mainly Sunni, climb up the hills on opposite sides of the Bekaa Valley, which narrows toward its northern end.

In the border checkpoint attack, the Lebanese National News Agency reported that gunmen opened fire on the soldiers from a car near Arsal. Initial reports indicated that the gunmen then fled into Syria, but a Lebanese Army statement did not specify where the attackers had gone.

According to the statement, the attack was carried out by an armed group in a black jeep. The troops stationed at the checkpoint confronted the group, the statement said, but a clash broke out, and three soldiers were killed.

A Syrian refugee who gave his name as Abu Omar and who has been living in Arsal for months said that a Lebanese Army unit was deployed in the town after the shooting, and that “a horrifying calm is reigning over Arsal.” Syrian refugees who arrived recently “are quite shaken,” he added, “because, as you know, they just fled the shelling and the violence in Syria.”

Arsal, which is near a porous border that has been used as a conduit for weapons, has in recent months become a hub for Syrian rebels and their supporters, as well as a temporary home for thousands of Syrian refugees. The clash Tuesday was the second in the area this year. In February, gunmen ambushed a Lebanese Army convoy near the town, killing a captain and a sergeant.

Saad Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, said in a statement that the attack was “an indicator of upcoming dangers that will target the national peace.” Mr. Hariri called on all political groups “to be vigilant and wise, to enable the army to accomplish its mission of protecting this peace and to keep away from ongoing operations aiming to drag Lebanon into the fighting inside Syria.”

Hezbollah, in a statement, condemned the assault in Arsal, calling it a “heinous crime inflicted on the sons of the military institution” and “an assault on all Lebanese people.”

The attack came as Syrian rebels were battling Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad for control of the strategic town of Qusayr. The Syrian rebels and their Lebanese supporters are angry that Lebanon is allowing Hezbollah fighters to cross into Syria, even as it impedes the Syrian rebels’ own cross-border movements. Some rebels have even threatened attacks on the Lebanese Army.

Gen. Salim Idris, the chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army — the loose-knit, Western-backed rebel umbrella group — warned Tuesday in an interview with the news channel Al-Arabiya about the repercussions of Hezbollah’s incursion, saying the rebel army would pursue Hezbollah fighters wherever they went.

General Idris, who grew up outside Qusayr, said he held the Lebanese president, Michel Suleiman, directly responsible for the bloodshed there. He added that he could no longer restrain his fighters, and he called on Mr. Suleiman to remove Hezbollah militants from Syrian territory within 24 hours or face the consequences.

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Rocket damage in Hermel, where residents said they were being targeted because Hezbollah holds political sway there. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times

“If the attacks of Hezbollah on Syrian territories do not stop,” he said, “then we will take all measures, and we will pursue Hezbollah to hell.”

It is unclear how the Lebanese government can rein in Hezbollah, since it is the most seasoned and influential military force in the country, widely considered more powerful than the Lebanese Army. The army also finds itself stretched thin as it tries to temper sustained sectarian violence in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.

On Tuesday in Hermel, residents paraded through the village carrying the Hezbollah flag to honor a fighter from the town who was killed in Qusayr. Villagers said the minority of people there who had not supported Hezbollah in the past were supporting it now, after the shelling, and Mr. Hamedeh, the son of the sheik, defended the group. “What is the substitute for Hezbollah?” he said. “Hezbollah is financing schools, hospitals, jobs. I think Hezbollah is fighting on behalf of the whole international community against terrorism.”

In the afternoon, the outdoor restaurants along the Orontes River were nearly deserted, their umbrellas advertising Lebanese beer closed. A few people ate grilled trout beside the water as rockets occasionally sailed overhead. They paused at the sound of the firing of rockets from the east side of the river, listening for the impact on the other side, 20 seconds later. It was an everyday occurrence, they said.

The funeral for the 17-year-old girl who was killed Monday, Lulu Awad, was held at a hilltop cemetery as the afternoon sun turned gold. Her body was wrapped in the traditional cloth, which was decorated, like a wedding dress, with a pouf of white chiffon.

“At your service, Zeinab,” relatives and neighbors chanted in the traditional Shiite invocation of the Prophet Muhammad’s granddaughter.

The chant has special resonance now. Zeinab’s tomb in Damascus, the Syrian capital, which is particularly revered by Shiites, is one of the main sites where Hezbollah fighters are engaged. From early on in the Syrian civil war, some have been deployed to protect the shrine.

As Ms. Awad’s relatives made their way through town for the funeral, a group of women and children sat on the terrace of their house near the cemetery. Gun blasts from some in the funeral procession who fired in the air made the women jump.

“We are so stressed,” said Umm Faisal, a woman who was leaning on her walker. “Whenever I hear anything, I jump up and hide in the bathroom.”

The rocket strike Tuesday that wounded the woman sitting under her olive tree, Khadijah Nasreddine, shattered the windows of her neighbor’s house. “I had more than 20 people in the house,” the neighbor, Umm Mohammed, said as women cried and young men swarmed the area to inspect the rubble. “I had invited all my children and their families.” On her kitchen floor, a platter a yard wide was half covered with hand-molded shishbarak, dumplings she had been making when the crash sent glass flying. Asked why it was happening, she raised her arms skyward and said, “God knows.”

Outside, a group of teenage boys declared, “If any more rockets come, we will shoot rockets at Arsal.” One said with mock ferocity, “God is great!” Then he giggled impishly.