Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon and Israeli forces engaged in cross-border attacks, as both sides reported early Sunday.
This came a day after the Lebanese health ministry reported the deaths of three rescue workers in an Israeli attack.
The Iran-backed Lebanese movement has been exchanging near-daily fire with Israeli forces in support of ally Hamas.
This exchange of fire began after the Palestinian group’s attack on Israel on October 7, which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. There have been repeated escalations during the 11 months of cross-border violence.
Hezbollah stated that it bombarded the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona with a volley of Falaq rockets early Sunday “in response to the enemy attacks, and particularly the attack” that killed the emergency workers in the Lebanese village of Froun.
The Israeli military announced Sunday morning that it had carried out a series of air strikes on Hezbollah targets, saying it had intercepted a number of projectiles launched overnight from Lebanon.
The military said in a statement that the Israeli Air Force had “struck Hezbollah military structures in the areas of Aitaroun, Maroun El Ras, and Yaroun in southern Lebanon”.
On Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said three emergency responders were killed and two others wounded, one of them critically, in an Israeli strike on Froun.
The ministry said the attack had targeted “a Lebanese civil defence team that was putting out fires sparked by the recent Israeli strikes”, while the Israeli military said it had “eliminated terrorists” from the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement in Froun.
