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Hezbollah launched a barrage of missiles towards northern Israel overnight as tensions across the border continue to rise.
Israeli forces said some 30 projectiles were fired in the attack as the country gears up for a revenge strike from Iran expected in just days.
Unverified footage shared on Twitter appeared to show the strikes on Sunday night
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes hit targets in the town of Khiam, southern Lebanon
Hezbollah fighters training in the Lebanese village of Aaramta
Iran-backed Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the rockets and said it targeted a military base on Sunday night.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soon announced it was firing against the area from which they were launched and confirmed there were no casualties.
Tehran’s largest terror proxy Hezbollah, with as many as 50,000 militants, vowed to seek revenge against Tel Aviv for the recent assassination of its chief commander Fuad Shukr.
Iran itself also promised to blitz their sworn enemy Israel after the death of a high-ranking Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh during his visit to Tehran in late July.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have engaged in tit-for-tat strikes with Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, for almost 10 months since war in Gaza broke out.
Exchanges of fire across the border, where some tens of thousands have evacuated on either side, are now a daily reality.
Reports surfaced over the weekend that Israel is now gearing up for a potential attack by Iran itself before Thursday.
It was previously expected that Hezbollah would be left launch a retaliatory strike itself in response to alleged Israeli assassinations in previous weeks.
But Israel now expects a direct attack from Tehran in days - possibly before ceasefire talks on Thursday, Axios reports.
As tensions bubble in the war-torn region, allied forces in the UK and US have shown concern about their civilians living in Lebanon.
The US has told its citizens to get on the first flight out available while Brit troops are poised in the region for a military-grade evacuation operation.
And US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin yesterday ordered an aircraft carrier fleet - including F-35 fighter jets and a missile-guided submarine - out to the Middle East.
It comes after an Israeli airstrike hit another school in the destroyed Gaza Strip this weekend.
At least 90 people died according to the Palestinian health authorities in an area under Hamas influence.
The Israeli military insisted it hit a Hamas command post, killing 19 terrorists, but the group said only civilians were killed.
The site of an Israeli airstrike at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza, which killed some 90 people