Thirty-four rockets were fired from Lebanon towards Israel
, of which 25 were intercepted by the missile defense system and five landed on Israeli territory.
The military spokesman said, adding that the location of the remaining 4 has yet to be identified.
Israel bombarded southern Lebanon with its artillery after rockets were fired on its territory from Lebanon itself.
This was reported by the official Lebanese agency.
Behind the rockets fired from southern Lebanon are
"Palestinian factions linked to Hamas".
This was claimed by Israeli security sources quoted by the media at the end of a security meeting at the Defense Ministry with Minister Yoav Gallant.
Analysts have also argued, however, that an attack of this magnitude could not have been carried out without the assent of Hezbollah.
Israeli mortar shells
, reports the Lebanese government agency NNA, have targeted agricultural areas along the blue line of demarcation with Israel.
This artillery attack is in response, according to Lebanese media, to the launch of rockets fired from southern Lebanon, by unidentified individuals, into Israeli territory.
This back and forth between the Lebanese and Israeli territories takes place as tensions have risen in Jerusalem and Gaza.
Lebanese pro-Iranian Hezbollah, which de facto controls southern Lebanon, had previously expressed solidarity with Palestinian armed organizations.
The UN mission (Unifil)
in southern Lebanon, which includes a thousand Italian soldiers, described the escalation of violence between Israel and Lebanon in the last few hours against the background of tensions in Jerusalem and Gaza as "very serious".
In a Unifil statement quoted by the Beirut media it is stated that the commander in chief of the UN mission, General Aroldo Lazaro, is in close contact with the authorities of Lebanon and Israel.
"The situation is extremely serious and Unifil calls for calm and to avoid escalation".
After the missile attack
from Lebanon towards Israel, the Italian soldiers of the UN mission of Unifil entered the shelter of the bunkers of their bases.
The procedure, as far as we know, would have taken place at the disposal of the military authorities of the Unifil Command.
Even the troops who were patrolling at that moment are sheltered in the first useful base available to them.
