Beirut, Lebanon:

Lebanese official media mentioned an Israeli strike Monday wounded three folks within the nation’s east, with Hezbollah saying it launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” at an Israeli base in retaliation.

Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have exchanged common cross-border hearth since Palestinian combatant group Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 assault on southern Israel sparked battle within the Gaza Strip.

In current weeks Hamas-ally Hezbollah has stepped up its assaults on northern Israel, and the Israeli navy has struck deeper into Lebanese territory.

“Enemy warplanes launched a strike at round 1:30 am this morning on a manufacturing unit in Sifri, wounding three civilians and destroying the constructing,” Lebanon’s official Nationwide Information Company mentioned.

Sifri is in Lebanon’s japanese Bekaa Valley within the Baalbek space, a Hezbollah stronghold that Israel has repeatedly struck in current weeks, situated round 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Israel-Lebanon frontier.

The Israeli military mentioned its warplanes “struck a Hezbollah navy construction… deep inside Lebanon,” referring to the situation as “Safri”.

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group mentioned it launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” focusing on “the headquarters of the Golan Division… at Nafah base” within the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

The strikes by Hezbollah on Israel got here “in response to the enemy’s assault focusing on the Bekaa area”, it mentioned.

Hezbollah later claimed a drone assault on troops in northern Israel, with the Israeli military saying “a UAV (drone) was recognized crossing from Lebanon into the realm of Metula”.

The military additionally mentioned “fighter jets struck roughly 15 (Hezbollah) navy buildings and terror infrastructure” in south Lebanon.

Final month, a constructing in Sifri was focused in an Israeli raid, whereas the Israeli military mentioned it had focused Hezbollah websites in Lebanon’s east.

The intensifying exchanges have stoked fears of all-out battle between Israel and Hezbollah, which went to battle in 2006.

In Lebanon, at the least 390 folks have been killed in practically seven months of cross-border violence, principally combatants but additionally greater than 70 civilians, in accordance with an AFP tally.

On Sunday official media in Lebanon mentioned an Israeli strike on a southern village killed 4 relations, with Hezbollah asserting retaliatory assaults.

Israel says 11 troopers and 9 civilians have been killed on its facet of the border.

Tens of 1000’s of individuals have been displaced on either side.

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