Hezbollah in Lebanon announced that it had fired a series of missiles into northern Israel on August 1 (local time) "in response" to a deadly Israeli attack on southern Lebanon.
This is also the first attack by Hezbollah after Israel announced the killing of a senior commander of this force on the night of July 30 with an airstrike.
Hezbollah's statement said: "The force fired dozens of Katyusha rockets... in response to the Israeli enemy's attack on... (the southern village of Shama) that killed a number of civilians."
The Israeli military said that immediately after the attack, its air force "attacked the Hezbollah launch pad from which the missiles were launched".
Earlier in the day, the Lebanese Health Ministry said four Syrians were killed and five Lebanese citizens were injured in an Israeli attack on the village of Shama in southern Lebanon.
In another development on the same day, when asked about the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari did not answer directly but only confirmed that the country only carried out a single airstrike in the area to destroy Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon on the night of July 30.
Previously, Iranian media reported that Mr. Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike at 2:00 a.m. on July 31 (local time) at the guesthouse where he was staying in northern Tehran. However, on August 1, the New York Times quoted Middle Eastern and US officials as saying that Mr. Haniyeh was killed by a bomb planted at the guesthouse where he was staying.
Asked about the information during an online press conference, Mr. Hagari stated: "I want to clarify: there were no other Israeli air attacks, whether by missiles or drones, that night (July 30) across the Middle East. I will not say anything more."