Two rocket strikes from south Lebanon in northern Israel resulted in the Israeli military firing back 20 shells on Sunday, according to reports by news agencies.
The Lebanese rockets landed near the town of Kiryat Shmona, the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that it “responded with artillery fire towards the source of the launch”.
A news agency witness in the Lebanon frontier area said more than 20 Israeli shells hit near two southern border towns.
The Israeli-Lebanese border has been largely calm since Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia fought a 34-day war in 2006.
But tension spiked this month when a Lebanese soldier killed an Israeli soldier across the border fence, after which a U.N. peacekeeping force met both sides to restore calm.
Officials suggested at the time that the shooting had been the isolated action of an individual.
