Dozens of rockets fired from Lebanon at Israel, according to the Israeli army

According to the Israeli army, a salvo of rockets was fired from Lebanon into northern Israel during the night, while Hezbollah attacked industrial and military facilities.

Most of the 105 rockets were intercepted, but some houses were hit. Air raid sirens sounded throughout the night, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at targets in northern Israel in retaliation for last week's pager and walkie-talkie attacks.

Israel has continued to strike targets in Lebanon following Friday's airstrike in Beirut that Israeli forces said killed a dozen senior Hezbollah commanders. Lebanon said 37 people were killed, including three children.

A video posted online overnight, so far unconfirmed by the BBC, appears to show a fire in a residential area near Haifa after it was hit by a Hezbollah rocket.

On Saturday, dozens of warplanes began “wide-scale” attacks on southern Lebanon “after discovering that Hezbollah was preparing to fire on Israeli territory,” said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.

Before the Israeli attacks began in the evening, the Israeli army had declared that it had “attacked about 180 sites and thousands of [rocket] Launch tubes” with blows

Earlier this week, 39 people were killed and thousands injured after pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia and political group, exploded through Lebanon in two days.

On Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the attacks, saying it had crossed “all red lines” and vowing “just punishment.”

Israel has not taken responsibility.

UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk said the explosions of the pagers and walkie-talkies constituted a violation of international humanitarian law.

On Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced an extension of restrictions on communities in northern Israel and parts of the southern Golan Heights, which came into force the previous evening at 8:30 p.m. local time (5:30 p.m. GMT).

The Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command has limited gatherings to 10 participants outdoors and 100 participants indoors. Educational activities can continue and arrivals for work are permitted as long as sheltered spaces are available.

The restrictions apply to the Haifa region and further north.

Amid growing fears that the conflict could escalate into a full-scale war, the U.S. State Department has issued new travel advisories for citizens currently in Lebanon.

The US Embassy in Beirut urged people to “leave Lebanon while commercial options are still available,” pointing out that they were already operating at “reduced capacity.”

The embassy added that it “may not be able to assist U.S. citizens who choose to remain.”

The Foreign Ministry of neighboring Jordan gave similar advice to its citizens, urging people living in Lebanon to leave the country as soon as possible.

Cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated on October 8, 2023 – a day after armed Hamas fighters from Gaza attacked Israel – when Hezbollah fired on Israeli positions in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Israel recently added the return of people displaced from the north of the country due to cross-border fighting to his list of war aims.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that Israel was entering a “new phase of the war” and focuses its efforts more on the north.