The Lebanese militant group Hizbullah said it launched a drone attack on northern Israel that injured two Israeli troops.
The violence came as fears of an all-out regional war mount following the killings last week of a senior Hizbullah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’s top political leader in Iran.
The Iranian-backed Hizbullah said in a statement it targeted a military base in northern Israel in response to “attacks and assassinations” carried out by Israel in several villages in south Lebanon.
The attack did not appear to be part of a more intense retaliation expected in response to the killing of Hizbullah commander Fouad Shukur in Beirut last week.
The Israeli military said fire services were working to put out a blaze sparked by the attack in Ayelet HaShahar in the upper Galilee.
Israel and Hizbullah have exchanged near-daily strikes for the past 10 months against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, but they have previously kept the conflict at a low level that had not escalated into full-on war.
Last week’s assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and Hizbullah commander Shukur in Beirut raised tensions in the region.
Israel has been bracing for retaliation from Iran and its allied militias.
