Lebanon’s health ministry said four people were killed Tuesday in Israeli shelling in the south of the country, while Hezbollah said it fired rockets and drones at Israeli military positions on the border.

Since the day after the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, hostilities between the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli armed forces have been almost daily. The Lebanese movement, close to Iran, says it is attacking Israeli military positions in support of its ally, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

Lebanon’s health ministry said “strikes by the Israeli enemy in the village of Daira” killed four people and wounded two others. He did not specify whether they were civilians or fighters.

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing Katyusha rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for the bombings in Dayra.

It also announced that it had launched barrages of rockets and drones against positions of the Israeli armed forces in the occupied and Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in “retaliation” for strikes the previous day in eastern Lebanon.

The Israeli military said it had recorded the launch of 115 missiles from Lebanon against northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

“Some missiles were intercepted and others landed in uninhabited areas,” he added. No injuries were reported, but fires broke out in places, according to the same source.

The Israeli military also announced that its aircraft hit rocket launchers and various “military” building facilities of “Hezbollah” in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon’s health ministry said three members of an immediate aid center of the Islamic Health Committee, an organization close to Hezbollah, were injured when they were “targeted” by the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, adding that the ambulance they were traveling in suffered “extensive damage”.

Since October 8, hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah have killed at least 589 people in Lebanon, most of them fighters from the Islamist movement, but also at least 128 civilians, including journalists, according to an AFP tally.

In Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed in the same period, according to the figures of the Israeli authorities.

Concerns that a full-scale armed conflict could break out have escalated since an Israeli bombardment that killed a top official of Hezbollah’s military wing in late July in a southern suburb of Beirut and the assassination of the leader of Hamas in Tehran, which Iran blamed on Israel. Both the leadership of the Islamic Republic and that of Hezbollah vowed revenge for these deaths.