Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it has launched explosive drones at an Israeli command position and Israeli air strikes hit south Lebanon, as violence prompted by bombardment in Gaza rumbled on across the Israeli-Lebanese frontier, Reuters reports.

The Israeli army said “suspicious aerial targets” had crossed from Lebanon and two were intercepted. Two Israeli soldiers were moderately wounded and several others were lightly injured from shrapnel and smoke inhalation, it said.

Israeli fighter jets carried out “an extensive series of strikes on Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanese territory”, it said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in Lebanon. Hezbollah said it had used the explosive drones to attack an Israeli command position near Ya’ara in Israel at 10am.

Sirens had sounded in Israel at several locations at the border. In Beirut, residents saw what appeared to be two warplanes streaking across a clear blue sky, leaving vapour trails behind them.

In an attack at a different location at the border at 10am, Hezbollah said its fighters had achieved a direct hit on an Israeli position using “appropriate weapons”.