Hezbollah fires rockets at north Israel after air strike kills five senior fighters

A shell that appears to be white phosphorus from Israeli artillery explodes over Kfar Kila, a Lebanese border village with Israel (Picture: AP)

The militant Hezbollah group has fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel, a day after an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Lebanon killed five of the group’s senior fighters.

The waves of rockets sent over the border represented one of the most intense bombardments since Hezbollah started attacking Israeli posts in the country’s north at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war.