Israel has threatened a severe response to three rockets it said had been fired from Lebanon, prompting the Lebanese prime minister to warn the country risked being dragged into a “new war”, AFP reports.

Israeli warplanes flew over eastern areas of southern Lebanon and interceptor missiles exploded, AFP says, citing Lebanon’s official National News Agency.

Israeli ground troops were strafing the Hamames hills with automatic weapon fire, NNA reports.

Israeli artillery fire on the Nabatieh district in the south and the town of Khiam, which was hit by “three shells (fired by) Merkava tanks”, the NNA report added.

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