
Israel has bombed Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in the Middle East. The Israeli military has reported striking targets linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas inside Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces said Hamas 'terrorist' infrastructure was hit in southern Lebanon.
Tensions are high after Israeli police raided Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque on consecutive nights earlier this week. The mosque is Islam's third holiest site and Israeli raids have sparked violent confrontations with Palestinians inside and sparked outrage in the wider region.
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was in Lebanon when the rockets were fired, said Palestinians would not sit idly by after Israel's aggression.
In a statement early this morning, the Israeli military tweeted that it had truck targets including terrorist infrastructures belonging to Hamas in southern Lebanon.
Israel added that it would not allow Hamas to operate from Lebanon and blamed the latter for any attack that comes from its territory against Israelis.
The Lebanese army confirmed that a number of rockets had been fired from the south of the country, but did not say who fired them. It said on Twitter that a unit had found "rocket launchers and a number of rockets intended for launch" near the Lebanese cities of Zibqin and Qlaileh and was "currently working to dismantle them".
Hezbollah, which militarily and politically dominates Lebanon's southern border region, neither denied nor claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on Israel. But the powerful Iran-backed armed group appeared to hint at it in a statement on Thursday, warning that "hundreds of millions of Muslims" were prepared to "shed blood" for al-Aqsa. In recent months, Iranian official Hassan Nasrallah said that violations at the mosque complex in Jerusalem's Old City would cause the entire region to explode.