The latest attack came after 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon early Sunday, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa.
Israel’s military says it is striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on after the Lebanese group’s initial response to deadly remote explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies days earlier.
Israeli security forces examine the site hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kiryat Bialik, northern Israel.Israeli first responders say the early morning barrage to its north on Sunday wounded at least three people near Haifa, damaged buildings and set cars on fire. Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire since the outbreak of the war in Gaza nearly a year ago, when the militant group began firing rockets in solidarity with the Palestinians and its fellow Iran-backed ally Hamas. The low-level fighting has displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the frontier.
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