The Israeli military has said “approximately 50 launches were identified from Lebanon toward northern Israel, a number of launches were intercepted while the rest fell in open areas”, AFP reports.

Hezbollah said it fired “more than 60 Katyusha-type rockets” at two Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights in retaliation for the earlier strikes by Israel.

Israel has been launching air strikes deeper and deeper into Lebanese territory for several weeks against Hezbollah positions, heightening the threat of open warfare and an expansion of the conflict in Gaza.

However, the strike at al-Osseira, some 100 kilometres from the Israeli-Lebanese border, ended a period of relative calm that had lasted around 10 days.