Several people were injured after Israel shelled Lebanese border towns on Tuesday, Lebanese state-run news agency NNA said Tuesday.
Houses in al-Duheira were struck and flares were fired over Ras al-Naqoura, NNA said.
Israeli shelling on areas along the Blue Line – the demarcation line between Lebanon, Israel and the Golan Heights – in the western part of the country, continued past midnight targeting civilians, it added.
On Monday, two houses in al-Duheira were damaged and caught on fire due to the shelling, the agency said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said shots had been fired from a light weapon toward a number of locations on the security fence between the two countries.
In addition, it said an anti-tank missile was fired “a short time ago” toward an IDF military post adjacent to the community of Margaliot on the Lebanese border.
The IDF said it was currently responding with artillery fire toward the origins of the fire.
Some context: On the face of it, the crossfire on Lebanon’s border with Israel appears marginal, dwarfed by the scale and intensity of the Hamas-Israel war further south.
Yet this barely populated swathe of mountainous terrain could be the launching pad of a regional war, drawing in a myriad of actors, including Iran and the United States.
Read more about the clashes at the Lebanon-Israel border here.
