Hezbollah retaliates after drone strike kills two in Naqoura

Two people were killed on Friday morning in an Israeli drone strike on the coastal border town of al-Naqoura in south Lebanon, with Hezbollah announcing the death of two of its fighters "on the road to Jerusalem".

Later during the day, Israeli warplanes raided a forest between Kfarkela and Deir Mimas. The region was also targeted by artillery shells.

Israeli artillery also shelled the southern border town of al-Khiam.

Hezbollah, for its part, targeted a post in the occupied Kfarshuba Hills, and soldiers in Metula and Menara in north Israel.

The group said it fired a volley of Katyusha rockets at a military command center in Kiryat Shmona in retaliation to an overnight strike on the southern town of Hanaway in the Tyre district that lightly injured five people.

Hezbollah also targeted a command center and buildings used by soldiers in Kiryat Shmona "with Falaq rockets" and other weapons and a military base in Liman "with an array of suicide drones" in response to the attacks on Hanaway and Naqoura.

On Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Israel would fight Hezbollah "with all its might" if the Lebanese armed group continued its "aggression" across the border.

Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces in support of ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza.

Fears of all-out war have mounted after Israel killed Hezbollah's top military commander Fouad Shukur in an air strike in a Beirut suburb last week.