



One person was killed in an alleged Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle in southern Lebanon on Sunday morning, Lebanese media reported.
The identity of the person killed in the coastal town of Naqoura was not immediately known.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the drone strike.
In response to the strike, Hezbollah launched two barrages of rockets at the Western Galilee in northern Israel, just across from the Naqoura area.
According to the IDF, a total of 15 rockets crossed the border in the attack. No injuries were reported. Sirens had sounded in the border communities of Betzet, Hanita, Rosh Hanikra, and Shlomi.
Hezbollah claimed the attack, saying it had shelled an Israeli military base and soldiers stationed in the area, “in response to the assassination carried out by the Zionist enemy in the town of Naqoura and the injury of civilians.”
It was the latest round in a simmering border conflict that threatens to boil over into a full-scale war.
The exchange of fire on Sunday came hours after the military announced that it had carried out a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon overnight.
The IDF said buildings used by the terror group and other infrastructure were struck in Khiam and Ayta ash-Shab, and that it shelled several other locations in south Lebanon with artillery.
On Saturday, several buildings used by Hezbollah were struck in the southern Lebanon towns of Odaisseh, Yaroun, and Marwahin, the IDF said.
Also Saturday, several Hezbollah operatives were targeted in an airstrike in southern Lebanon’s Aitaroun.
The IDF said the operatives were spotted at a building used by the terror group.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.
So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in 10 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 317 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 61 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have been killed.
The violence has raised fears of all-out conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, which last went to war in 2006.