Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group says it has launched more than 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation over a strike that killed one of its senior commanders.
The attack by the Iran-backed group on Thursday was one of the largest in the months-long conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border.
The Israeli military said "numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets" had entered its territory from Lebanon, many of which it said were intercepted. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
It confirmed on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who headed one of Hezbollah's three regional divisions in southern Lebanon, a day earlier.
Hours later, Hezbollah launched scores of Katyusha rockets and Falaq rockets with heavy warheads into northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
It launched more rockets on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said that the Palestinian death toll from nearly nine months of war has surged past 38,000.
Hezbollah has said it will not cease fire as long as Israel continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes amid the ongoing fighting in Gaza.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday Israeli forces were hitting Hezbollah "very hard every day" and will be ready to take any action necessary against the group.
Hezbollah began firing at Israeli targets along the border with Lebanon after its Palestinian ally Hamas launched its terrorist attack on Israel on October 7.
Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed more than 300 Hezbollah fighters and some 90 civilians, according to tallies by the news agency Reuters. Israel says fire from Lebanon has killed 18 soldiers and 10 civilians.
