“Rockets and drone sirens going off not far from where I am. It’s been happening over the past two hours all along the border,” Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reports from Shlomi, Israel.

“This comes a day after the killing of senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil. In a very strange break of unambiguous policy from Israel, its newly appointed foreign minister has admitted it did kill him.

“We now have heard of a Hezbollah attack about 20km from here on an Israeli military base and are trying to confirm that,” Khan added.

“The Israelis have been talking about pushing Hezbollah back from the border and bringing tens of thousands of residents who evacuated this area back. It’s a complete ghost town. This is really pushing both sides to the brink of war.”