Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Tuesday, which it said were retaliation for a deadly Israeli airstrike.
About 10 of 30 rockets fired at the town of Kiryat Shmona were “successfully intercepted,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
Earlier, at least three civilians were killed following Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
The Israeli strikes hit a farmer’s house in the border town of Houla, killing a couple and their son, NNA said.
Some background: The violence marks the latest round of daily, deadly cross-border strikes by both Israel and Hezbollah that have displaced tens of thousands of Lebanese and Israeli residents from their homes since the outbreak of war in Gaza.
Concern is rising among US officials that Israel is planning a ground incursion into Lebanon if diplomatic efforts fail to push Hezbollah back from the northern border, according to officials familiar with the intelligence.
