Hezbollah resumes operations after Shukur's funeral

Hezbollah targeted Friday Israeli soldiers in the Dhaira post with artillery shells and a post in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills, as it resumed its operations against Israel, three days after Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander.

Israeli drones meanwhile raided the southern towns of Rab Tlatine and Dhaira.

Hezbollah fired overnight anti-aircraft missiles on Israeli warplanes in south Lebanon, forcing them to retreat beyond the border and launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday in response to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon.

Thursday's attack was the first since Israel killed top commander Fouad Shukur on Tuesday evening.

The commander's killing has triggered fears of a cycle of escalation that could spark a regional war that has been narrowly avoided over the past 10 months.

The violence since October has killed at least 542 people on the Lebanese side, most of them fighters but also including 114 civilians.

At least 22 soldiers and 25 civilians have been killed on the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights.