The Israeli military said this morning it had intercepted 55 rockets fired from Lebanon at northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights after the Lebanese group "Hezbollah" announced that it had carried out a series of rocket attacks against Israeli military positions, reported France Press, quoted by BTA.
"Some missiles were intercepted and others fell in unpopulated areas. No casualties have been reported," the Israeli army said in a statement.
Earlier "Hezbollah" announced that it had fired several volleys of rockets at Israeli army positions in the Israeli-occupied and annexed Golan Heights as "revenge" for the strikes against the group the previous day in East Lebanon - far from the border area between Israel and Lebanon, where for over 10 months the Israeli army and "Hezbollah" firing at each other almost every day.
The Islamist movement, an ally of Tehran, said its fighters had come under "intense rocket fire" two military positions on the Golan Heights in response to an Israeli attack in the Bekaa region.
Last night the Israeli Air Force struck weapons depots of "Hezbollah" in the area, AFP recalls.
The Israeli army announced that it had hit one of the launchers involved in this morning's rocket fire "on the Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights".
After the shells fell, fires broke out in several areas in northern Israel and firefighters are trying to put them out, the military said.