The Israeli army announced today that it carried out strikes overnight in southern Lebanon against military buildings of the Islamist movement Hezbollah, which for its part claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets targeting a city in northern Israel.

“During the past night, the Israeli armed forces hit Hezbollah military buildings in the districts of Aitaroun, Maroun al-Ras and Yaroun, in southern Lebanon,” the army said in a statement, adding that it intercepted a number of rockets fired from Lebanon.

The Lebanese Islamist movement said in the early hours of the morning that it had fired a barrage of rockets at a town in northern Israel in retaliation for an Israeli strike that, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, killed three civil protection workers.

“In retaliation to the enemy’s attacks (…) and especially the attack” which claimed the lives of civil protection workers in the village of Frun yesterday, Hezbollah fighters “bombarded (…) Kiryat Simona with a barrage of rockets”, stressed the Iranian-backed movement in a press release.

Yesterday Saturday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that three members of emergency services were killed and two others were wounded in an Israeli attack on a civil protection group.