A barrage of some 35 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the northern community of Ein Zeitim near Safed on Monday evening as Jewish Israelis sat down for the Passover Seder meal.
The attack set off sirens in Safed and nearby towns. The IDF said there were no injuries in the attack and that troops shelled the launch sites.
Israeli fighter jets also struck a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon after hitting two more buildings where Hezbollah operatives were gathered earlier, the IDF said.
Hezbollah said it had fired “dozens” of Katyusha rockets at an army headquarters in northern Israel in response to raids targeting villages in southern Lebanon.
A Hezbollah statement said it had bombarded “the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 91st Division at Ein Zeitim Base with dozens of Katyusha rockets”.
This was in response to Israeli attacks on “southern villages and civilian homes,” most recently in Srifa, Odaisseh and Rab Tlatin.
The back and forth came hours after a Hezbollah surface-to-air missile downed an Israeli military drone over southern Lebanon shortly after midnight.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group said it shot down an Elbit Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicle over the Lebanese town of Aaichiyeh, some 13 kilometers (8 miles) from the Israeli border.
Israeli fighter jets struck the missile launch site used in the attack, the IDF said, adding that the incident was under further investigation.
Fresh rocket sirens subsequently sounded in the border community of Arab al-Aramshe. Three rockets fired from Lebanon struck open areas near the town, causing no injuries or damage, the IDF said.
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