The trade of cross-border missiles came after the deadliest day of conflict in Lebanon since 2006.
Israeli forces and Hezbollah have continued to trade cross-border missiles through the night and into Tuesday morning, following the deadliest day of airstrikes in the country for almost two decades.
Overnight, the Israeli military said that it initiated airstrikes alongside tank and artillery fire on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah announced early Tuesday it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, aimed at several military installations, an airbase and a munitions factory.
Israeli authorities say a regional hospital was damaged as sirens sounded throughout large swathes of northern Israel. The Israeli missile interception batteries forced some of the rockets down, the Israeli military said, but several buildings were damaged and firefighting crews were working to extinguish blazes that resulted.
Elsewhere, Israeli strikes in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis early Tuesday killed at least seven, Palestinian officials said.
And in an interview with CNN, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that the Israeli strikes risk pushing the region into wider conflict. “We must not allow for Lebanon to become another Gaza at the hands of Israel”, Pezeshkian said in the CNN report.
On Monday, Hezbollah fired roughly 100 missiles, some of them deep into Israel and around the northern city of Haifa, were largely intercepted and Israeli emergency services only reported a handful of injuries.
