Hezbollah said it had launched “dozens of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 missiles” – a new type of weapon the group had not used before – at the Ramat David airbase, southeast of Haifa,.
Hezbollah said it fired missiles at an Israeli military base on Sunday following an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 37 people, including one of the militant group’s senior leaders.
It was not immediately clear whether any of the rockets hit their target.
However, Israel’s emergency medical services reported that a man was lightly wounded by a missile intercepted in a village in the lower Gailee.
Local media said rockets shot from Lebanon were intercepted in Haifa and Nazareth. The Israeli military said it had monitored the launch of “about ten rockets” from Lebanon, most of which they say were intercepted.
Hezbollah said it had launched the missiles “in response to the repeated Israeli attacks that targeted various Lebanese regions and led to the fall of many civilian martyrs.
Israel and Hezbollah had exchanged heavy fire on Saturday as rescue crews in Beirut searched for survivors amongst the rubble of an apartment building leveled by an Israeli strike.
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel for a wave of apparently remotely detonated explosions that hit pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members Tuesday and Wednesday.
At least 37 people were killed in those attacks, including two children. Around 3,000 were wounded.
The attacks were widely blamed on Israel, but the country has not confirmed or denied responsibility.
Also on Sunday, Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
They ordered the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza strip.
Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli troops live ordering the office to be shut for 45 days.
The news follows an extraordinary order issued in July that saw Israeli forces raid Al Jazeera’s broadcast position in East Jerusalem, seizing equipment and preventing its broadcasts.
Al Jazeera denounced the move as it continued broadcasting live from Amman in neighbouring Jordan.