Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Monday it had attacked an Israeli naval base near Haifa, a day after a similar attack killed at least four Israeli soldiers at a military base in the same area.
Israeli media reported that air raid sirens had sounded in the city of Netanya and other towns in central Israel.
The Israeli military said it had intercepted projectiles fired from Lebanon into central Israel.
Hezbollah also said it had attacked Israeli soldiers on Tuesday who had advanced into the border village of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon, where the Israeli military says it is conducting ground incursions.
The pro-Iran Lebanese group said its fighters "fired artillery shells at a concentration of enemy soldiers" in the village.
It threatened more attacks if Israel pressed ahead with its offensive in southern Lebanon.
"We remain vigilant and prepared to defend our country," Hezbollah said in a statement, quoted by French news agency AFP.
The attacks claimed by Hezbollah today follow Sunday's attack on a military base south of the city of Haifa, which killed four Israeli soldiers.
It was the deadliest attack in Israel since the Shiite armed movement and the Israeli army went to open war on September 23.
Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi described the attack as painful.
Backed by Iran and allied with Palestinian Hamas, Hezbollah warned that the attack was a taste of what Israel would face if it continued military operations in Lebanon.
The Israeli army said Sunday night's attack targeted a training camp in Binyamina, south of Haifa, a large city in northern Israel.
A military source told AFP that the drone attack, carried out on Sunday night, hit the military base's dining hall.
According to United Hatzalah, a volunteer relief organization, more than 60 people were injured in the attack.
Hezbollah said its fighters had fired "a squadron of explosive drones" at a training camp.
The Lebanese group said it was a "complex operation" because it involved simultaneously launching dozens of missiles in the Nahariya and Acre regions to "distract Israeli air defense systems."
The drones managed to bypass Israeli radars and "hit their target," according to the Shiite movement.
After weakening Hamas in Gaza, Israel moved the front line of the war to Lebanon to allow the return to the north of the country of some 60,000 inhabitants displaced by rocket fire from Hezbollah.
The Lebanese group began firing on October 8, 2023, to support Hamas, which has been facing an Israeli offensive since then.
The offensive was triggered by a Hamas attack on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, which left some 1,200 people injured and 251 hostages taken to Palestinian territory.
The Israeli response has left nearly 42,300 people dead in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest tally from health officials of Hamas, which has ruled the enclave since 2007.
Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other senior members of the group, as well as an Iranian general, in a bombing south of Beirut on September 27.
Despite its increased focus on Lebanon, Israel has continued its operations in Gaza and killed several people today in an artillery strike on a UN food distribution center in Jabalia, in the north of the territory.
Qatar's Al Jazeera television, one of the few media outlets that still has correspondents in the north of the enclave, said at least 10 people were killed in the attack.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said at least eight people were killed and 40 others were wounded.
The bodies and the injured were taken to Al Awda hospital in Jabalia, the agency added, according to AFP.
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