Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it had attacked Israeli army position using explosive drones for the first time, prompting heavy Israeli shelling in an escalation of more than three weeks of clashes at the frontier, Reuters reports.

The Israeli army said it was striking a series of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon following a number of launches towards Israel, in post on social media platform X.

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported Israeli shells hitting various areas of the south along the border.