The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced that it fired dozens of rockets at a city in northern Israel, AFP reported.
Fire is exchanged almost daily between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian Hamas, which has been waging war against Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 7.
Hezbollah said that in the morning it fired "dozens of Katyusha rockets" at the Mojave (agricultural village) of Meron, 8 kilometers from the border.
Meron is home to a large air control base that the pro-Iranian party has attacked several times since the beginning of the year.
Hezbollah said it acted "in response to Israeli attacks on southern villages and civilian homes," including the attack on the home of a party fighter in Kerbet Selm the previous day.
According to the official Lebanese news agency Ani, a woman and another person were also killed in this strike.
"About 35 launches from Lebanon towards Israeli territory were detected, and a number of them were intercepted," the Israeli army said.
The statement added that overnight the Israeli air force targeted several "infrastructures" of the party, including "a military structure where Hezbollah terrorists have been identified in Herbet Selm."
At least 312 people, most of them Hezbollah fighters, and 53 civilians have been killed in Lebanon since the cross-border violence began on October 8. Ten soldiers and seven civilians were killed in Israel.
Tens of thousands of residents have also left the border area.
Although for now the clashes remain confined to the border areas, the threat of open war is growing. Recently, several strikes have been carried out on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, some of which have killed or injured civilians.
Last month, pro-Iranian party leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to make Israel pay "in blood" for civilians killed in Lebanon, days after dozens of civilians, including children, were killed in the strikes.
The group reiterates that it will stop its attacks on Israel only if there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
But Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant recently warned that a possible ceasefire in Gaza would not affect Israel's "goal" of pushing Hezbollah from its northern border by force or diplomacy. /BGNES
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