After a short-lived calm following a heavy exchange of strikes between Israel and the

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, fighting resumed today Monday.

State media and witnesses reported that Israeli strikes targeted the Lebanese border

village of Tair Harfa and in the area of the coastal city of Sidon on Monday. A car was hit in

the latter strike. It was not immediately clear whether there were casualties.

On Sunday, Israel launched dozens of strikes on southern Lebanon that it described as a

preemptive operation, saying it had averted a major attack planned by Hezbollah in

retaliation for the killing of one of its top commanders, Fouad Shukur, in an Israeli strike in

Beirut last month.

Shortly afterward, Hezbollah launched a barrage of hundreds of drones and rockets, which

it said was in retaliation for the killing of Shukur. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

claimed drones had hit an Israeli military intelligence site near Tel Aviv. Israel said no

military target was hit. Neither offered evidence.

Hezbollah declared its retaliatory operation was over and neither side launched strikes

overnight.