Israel's army says it has hit a dozen Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, killing one of its members

The Israeli army announced Tuesday that it struck a dozen Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, killing one of the armed Islamist movement's members, during several overnight operations.

The army "bombed a dozen Hezbollah terrorist targets in seven different areas," it said, citing among them a weapons depot and several infrastructures. During these operations, the army "eliminated one Hezbollah terrorist," it added in a statement.

The announcement comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened a "severe" response to Saturday's rocket attack that killed 12 young men in Majdal Shams, a town in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan near the Lebanese border.

According to the Israeli army, the rocket was fired from Lebanon by the Iranian-backed Islamist movement Hezbollah, which the Lebanese Islamist movement has denied.

In recent weeks, the Israeli army has claimed to have hit numerous Hezbollah targets, saying it was responding to attacks by the Lebanese Shiite movement on Israeli territory.

Since the start of the 7 October war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, cross-border gunfire between Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli army has been almost daily. Hezbollah claims that it attacks Israel in support of its ally Hamas and the Palestinians in Gaza.

According to the Israeli authorities, 22 soldiers and 24 civilians have since been killed by Hezbollah fire.

The violence has also claimed at least 531 lives in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters, but also 105 civilians, according to AFP's own assessment from various sources.