Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group said it launched a drone attack on early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops and set off a fire.
The violence happened as the result of regional war mount following the killings last week of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas.
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted a military base in northern Israel in response to attacks and assassinations carried out by Israel in several villages in south Lebanon.
The attack did not appear to be part of a more intense retaliation expected in response to the killing of Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur in Beirut last week.
The Israeli military said fire services were working to put out a fire that was ignited as a result of the attack in Ayelet HaShahar in the upper Galilee.
For the past 10 months, Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily strikes against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, but they have previously kept the conflict at a low level that had not escalated into full-on war.
Last week’s assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and Hezbollah commander Shukur in Beirut raised tensions in the region.
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