The attack comes a day after Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon left three people dead, including a Hezbollah field commander identified by the Israeli army as Ismail Yusaf Baz.

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said Wednesday that it launched missiles and drones at a military facility in northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah members, an incident that the Israeli military said wounded at least 14 soldiers.

The Iran-aligned group said it launched “a combined attack with guided missiles and explosive drones on a new military reconnaissance command centre in Arab al-Aramshe,” an Arab-majority village of northern Israel near the Lebanese border.

The Israeli military said six among the 14 soldiers wounded in Wednesday’s attack were in serious condition. It added that it had “struck the sources of fire” after identifying several anti-tank missile and drone launches from Lebanon towards the Bedouin village of Arab al-Aramshe.

Later, Israel’s air force said its fighter jets had struck “terrorist infrastructure” belonging to Hezbollah in the north of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, reaching beyond the southern border region where Israel has focused most of its strikes.

The attack comes a day after Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon left three people dead, including a Hezbollah field commander identified by the Israeli army as Ismail Yusaf Baz.

Israel said its strikes killed two local Hezbollah commanders and another operative, while the group said three of its members were killed. Local Israeli authorities also said three people were wounded in a strike from Lebanon earlier on Tuesday.

On Monday, several Israeli soldiers who crossed into Lebanese territory were wounded when Hezbollah detonated explosive devices, the first such attack in six months of clashes.

Hezbollah’s ally Hamas said in a statement that its fighters had planted the explosives in the Tel Ismail area in southern Lebanon.

Israeli forces and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire for more than six months in parallel to the Gaza war, in the most serious hostilities since they fought a major war in 2006.

The fighting has fuelled concern about the risk of further escalation, which has risen further following Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel late Saturday with hundreds of explosive drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles.

Israel has vowed to respond to the attack even as several Western countries have urged it to avoid an escalation of conflict in the Middle East.

Iran’s attack followed an Israeli air strike on the Iranian embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus on April 1 – a strike that killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including two generals.

US President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would not take part in any Israeli counteroffensive against Iran.