Lebanon’s Shiite group Hezbollah, on Friday, confirmed that they fired more than 10 rockets at Israel amid rising tensions on the borders. 

Hezbollah said the attack with dozens of rockets was a response to Israeli airstrikes on Thursday, as per a Reuters report. The Israeli airstrikes, reportedly, hit open areas in southern Lebanon. 

The Israeli air force said that more than 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon into their territory.

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“More Most of the rockets were intercepted by the… aerial defence system while the rest of them landed in open areas adjacent to Har Dov,” the air force said on Twitter.

This firing marked the third day of cross-border hostilities between the two entities – Hezbollah and Israel. Israel has been launching shelling and airstrikes at Lebanon. The two countries had arrived at calm in 2006 after a one-month war.

Air raid sirens sounded in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel, and in the Golan Heights, which was part of the territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war, Reuters said. 

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A Lebanese security source told Reuters said the rockets were launched from the area of al-Arqoub, near the Lebanese town of Shebaa.

On Wednesday, two rockets were launched from Lebanon, which responded with artillery fire. 

Israel’s military, in a statement, said that the rockets were fired from Lebanon, with one falling short of the Israeli border and the others striking inside Israel. Witnesses in Lebanon also reported that several rockets were fired at Israel.