Israel said late Tuesday it had struck sites "throughout Lebanon," targeting what it called Hezbollah rocket launching infrastructure after a series of air raid sirens in northern Israel."As part of the effort to degrade the organisation and thwart rocket attacks against Israeli civilians, in the past hour, the (military) struck launchers and Hezbollah terrorists throughout Lebanon," a statement said.
Earlier Tuesday, Israel said it had "detected expanded preparations by the Hezbollah" to launch rockets at Israel.
The army added that it hits Hezbollah launchers "prior to, or immediately following, a launch."
In successive statements, the Iran-backed militant group announced a major wave of simultaneous attacks on northern Israel on Tuesday evening, saying its fighters targeted around a dozen towns as well as several Israeli military, air and naval bases with barrages of rockets as well as advanced missiles.
The group also said it had launched attack drones and artillery shelling targeting locations in northern Israel, and rocket fire at Israeli troops inside south Lebanon, at the same time as the first wave of attacks or immediately after.
