Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment over the Lebanese village of Al-Najjariyeh on May 17, 2024, in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel. AFP
Hezbollah has traded cross-border fire with Israeli forces almost daily since the beginning of the war on Gaza, now in its eighth month.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said "Israeli strikes targeted Najjariyeh and Addousiyeh", two adjacent villages about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Israeli border just south of the coastal city of Sidon.
The NNA reported "victims" without elaborating, and an AFP photographer saw ambulances heading to the targeted sites.
The strikes hit a pickup truck in Najjariyeh and an orchard, the photographer said.
Hezbollah -- which has intensified its cross-border attacks in recent days, as Israeli strikes deeper into Lebanese territory -- announced Friday it had launched "attack drones" on Israeli military positions.
It came a day after the powerful Lebanese group said it had attacked an Israeli army position in Metula, a border town in northern Israel, wounding three soldiers.
Hezbollah said the attack was carried out with an "attack drone carrying two S5 rockets", which are normally launched from jets.
Also on Thursday, the resistance group announced the deaths of two of its fighters in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. The NNA said they were killed when their car was targeted.
Hezbollah earlier on Thursday said it had launched dozens of Katyusha rockets at Israeli positions in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Israel launched overnight air raids on Lebanon's eastern Baalbek region, a Hezbollah stronghold near the Syrian border.
Earlier this week Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli base near Tiberias, about 30 kilometres from the Lebanese border -- one of the group's deepest attacks into Israel since clashes began on October 8.
The cross-border fighting has killed at least 415 people in Lebanon, including 80 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
Israel says 14 soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed on its side of the border.
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