The Israeli military has claimed that about 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel today, after an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon the previous day, AFP reports.

“A short while ago, approximately 90 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon,” the military said in a statement, adding that several were intercepted but others struck inside northern Israel sparking fires in some areas.

The latest barrage from Lebanon came after an Israeli strike killed a senior Hezbollah commander yesterday. Hezbollah identified the commander as Taleb Sami Abdallah, also known as Abu Taleb and born in 1969.

A Lebanese military source said the commander was “the most important in Hezbollah to be killed up to now since the start of the war”.